The first peoples to settle the Americas likely brought their own canine companions with them, according to new research that sheds more light on where dogs came from. An international team of researchers led by archaeologist Angela Perri of Durham University in the UK examined the archaeological a
In the east of Serbia in the province of Vojvodina, between the Danube river and the southwestern slope of the Carpathians, there is a large sandy area called Deliblatska peščara (literally Arenal de Deliblato, after the nearby town of that name), which is the largest sandy area in Europe. It is th
An article by Dr. Miki Ben-Dor and Professor Ran Barkai, from the Jacob M. Alkow Department of Archeology at Tel Aviv University, proposes an original unifying explanation of the physiological, behavioral and cultural evolution of the human species, from its inception. first appearance about two mil
A team led by the University of Arizona has managed to establish that the temperature of the last ice age, the last glacial maximum 20,000 years ago, was about 46 degrees Fahrenheit (about 7 degrees Celsius). Their findings allow climate scientists to better understand the relationship between risi
When the first Neanderthal genome was sequenced, using DNA collected from ancient bones, it was accompanied by the discovery that modern humans in Asia, Europe and the Americas inherited about 2% of their DNA from Neanderthals - proving that humans moderns and Neanderthals had interbred after modern
Changes in the Earths axial tilt is the most important orbital parameter in determining the end of ice ages. This is the conclusion of an international investigation published in Science in which geologists from the University of Pisa participated together with colleagues from Melbourne in Australia
In recent years, scientists have found evidence that modern humans and Neanderthals share an intertwined genetic past. Over the course of human history, these two hominin species would have interbred not just once, but multiple times. A new study published in Genetics supports this notion, finding
The largest study to date of ancient DNA from the Iberian Peninsula offers new insights into the populations that lived in this region over the last 8,000 years. The most surprising discovery suggests that the local (male) Y chromosomes were almost completely replaced during the Bronze Age. From 25
The Hadza people are an ethnic group that lives around Lake Eyasi in the Great Rift Valley and near the Serengeti Plain in Tanzania, in an area properly called Hadzaland. In 2015 there were between 1,200 and 1,300 individuals, a small group of which, barely 300, still survived dedicated to hunting
Between 5 and 6 million years ago the Mediterranean Sea almost completely dried up. The cause was the tectonic movements that closed the Strait of Gibraltar connecting Europe and Africa. Deprived of the influx of water from the Atlantic, the Mediterranean could not balance that loss with the draina
The publication of The Origin of Species in 1859 he revolutionized the scientific world and gave a radical turn to the concepts about the past of Man. Although it has been the name of its author, Charles Darwin , the one who has permeated the popular mentality, was not really the only researcher wh
For some time now, genetics has been expanding knowledge and field of action in the investigation of the Past of Man , so that today this discipline has almost as much weight in paleoanthropological studies as in field work. If we add another science to that, climatology , it is explained that what
Northwest of the Namib desert, in the Damaraland region, is the Brandberg mountain , one of the sacred places of the local Bushman tribes, which they call Daures . In both cases the meaning is the same:mountain of fire . But the surprise that this mountain keeps are the 45 thousand cave paintings it
Do you see those images of rock concerts with thousands of hands of the spectators on high? Those of football fans celebrating a goal would also be worth it. Well, they will not deny me a certain resemblance to the photo. Only this corresponds to hands that moved almost ten millennia ago. It doesnt
All, or almost all, researchers agree that the origin of Humanity is in Africa. What they do not agree on is the exact place where the first hominid, the first man, arose. German researchers now believe they have solved this mystery:we all come from Malawi. Specifically from the northern region of
Probably no reader has heard of Niihau. It is the smallest inhabited island of the Hawaiian archipelago, privately owned since the 19th century and would not be of more interest than merely tourist interest -a minority, on the other hand- were it not for two very different reasons, exactly half a ce
In 1946, Karl Dönitz, who was großadmiral (Supreme Admiral) of the Kriegsmarine and president of Germany after the death of Hitler, sat on the bench of the accused in Nuremberg to answer for his responsibility in the Nazi regime. Among the issues he had to explain was the order that forbade rescuing
In the winter of 1944, all the belligerent countries in the Second World War were clear that Germany had lost and the end of the conflict was only a matter of time, which Hitler was willing to delay. The Nazi leader, in effect, still tried to make a final and desperate move:the Unternehmen Nordwind
Lets go back to World War II. In the heat of the fight against the Germans for the control of a bridge, shots buzzing everywhere, an unheard-of scene takes place when a British commander, wearing a bowler hat, opens an umbrella and with it protects Reverend Egan, chaplain, from enemy fire. military
The Cold War was a latent conflict that took place from the end of the Second World War until the dissolution of the USSR - dividing the world into two large blocs (called Western and Eastern, capitalist and communist, First and Second Worlds...) that now he experiences a kind of aftermath under dif
If someone believes that refugee camps are a sad reality of our days, they are mistaken because, unfortunately, there is little left to invent in terms of human catastrophes in times of war. A good example could be El Shatt, a camp located in Egypt that did not take in Palestinians, Lebanese or Syri
The independence of Hispanic America took place in the 19th century and was driven by European revolutionary and nationalist movements. By Me. Cláudio FernandesThe process ofindependence of Hispanic America occurred in the 19th century, after about four centuries of colonization. In order to unders
Although his invasion and annexation of Silesia during the War of the Austrian Succession had been formally recognized by the Peace of Dresden in 1745, Frederick the Great he knew it was just an armistice. In a confidential testament drawn up in 1752, he stated that since Austria was the country Pru
Greater Zimbabwe , extensive stone ruins of an African City from Iron Age . Its in the southeast Zimbabwe , about 30 km southeast of Masvingo (formerly Fort Victoria). The central area of the ruins covers 80 hectares, making Great Zimbabwe the largest of more than 150 great stone