The last exit from Africa, 70,000 to 60,000 years ago, was the right one. That of a small group of humans who, crossing the Red Sea, marks the start of an odyssey. Prehistory, Upper Palaeolithic. A group of Homo sapiens grouped around a fire are carving flint tools. Painting by Francisco Fonollosa
In the Altai Mountains in southern Siberia, prehistorians have discovered the remains of a 45,000-year-old lion figurine, perhaps the oldest in the world. Lion figurine fragment discovered in level 11 of Denisova Cave, Altai, Siberia (Russia). A chest with a dress decorated with hatching colored
DNA analysis of an ancient African skeleton reveals a major wave of migration from the Near East 3,000 years ago. Entrance to the cave in which Motta Man was discovered. GENOME. Modern man, who appeared in Africa 200,000 years ago, left it several times to populate the planet... but he also retur
The Palarq Foundation, a private, non-profit entity charity that supports the archeology and human paleontology missions of Spanish researchers, has teamed up with Dr. Eudald Carbonell, co-director of Atapuerca and vice president of Fundación Atapuerca, to bring human paleontology closer to all audi