Châtelperronian bone fragments identified as Neandertal based on protein residues
Frido Welker and colleagues have applied a new method to identify tiny bone fragments as Neandertal remains, based on the protein residues that they contain.
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Neandertals didn't disappear before 40,000 years ago
The science press has its own synchronized cycle, like brain waves, and being in Rome seems to make me into a misfiring neuron. Here it is tomorrow, and ther...
Neandertal stories on parade
Long-time science journalist Robin McKie has a long article in The Observer about the Neandertals this weekend: “Neanderthals: how needles and skins gave us ...
Les Rois revisited, and dental classification of other Aurignacian individuals
I pointed a couple of weeks ago to the Les Rois Neandertal paper by Ramirez Rozzi and colleagues.
"Competitive exclusion" and the extinction of Neandertals: should we believe it?
I’ve been out of e-mail range for the past week. In the meantime several people e-mailed me this new paper:
Interstratified palimpsests
Very nearly this time last year, I commented on a paper by Brad Gravina, Paul Mellars, and Christopher Bronk Ramsey concerning the stratigraphy of the Ch&ac...
Grotte des Fées de Châtelperron
Gravina et al. (2005) report on the radiocarbon stratigraphy of Grotte des Fées de Châtelperron, which is the original type site of the Châtelperronia...