Returning to the pollen of Shanidar
Marta Fiacconi and Chris Hunt have undertaken an analysis of pollen samples from the surface of the sediments of Shanidar Cave, Iraq.
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A Neandertal mortuary in Spain?
El Pais has a fascinating story about the Paleolithic sites in the Lozoya river valley: “A Neanderthal trove in Madrid”.
Paleoclimate and shifting Neandertal strategies
A new paper by Guillaume Guérin and colleagues in the Journal of Archaeological Science Guerin:2012 provides a detailed chronology for the Neandertal site of...
Neandertals and eagle talons
Eugène Morin and Vronique Laroulandie have published a new paper in PLoS ONE demonstrating evidence that some Neandertals had a fetish for eagle talons Morin...
Shellfish gathering, paleoanthropological strawman
We have known for many years that Lower Paleolithic people were using shellfish, fish, and littoral resources at sites across the Old World, from Trinil Joor...
Neandertals of the North
Ludovic Slimak and colleagues this week argue that Byzovaya, a site in the Russian far north, was produced by Neandertals: “Late Mousterian Persistence near ...
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...
Neandertals, plants, and fish
I don’t read Spanish well, but I’m going to go ahead and link a news article in a Spanish journal about Neandertal diet and cooking at the Spanish site of El...
Real stories of the Neandertal CSI
GRRRRRR! Why do I have to keep reading about how spearchucky modern humans went around killing Neandertals?
Quote: Otte on lithic analysis
I happened across this great quote by Marcel Otte, referring to the Bordes-Binford debate among other archaeological donnybrooks:
"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:
Not a lasting last for the Neandertals
The latest in a long line of “last known Neandertal” sites is now Gorham’s Cave, Gibraltar. Of course, if this were actually a continuing string of “latest” ...