All posts tagged with Shanidar

Link: Graeme Barker on work at Shanidar

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Nature’s Ewen Callaway interviewed Cambridge archaeologist Graeme Barker about his recent resumption of fieldwork at Shanidar, Iraq: “Archaeologists ousted b...

Tartar control and Neandertal plant use

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Dental plaque is a biofilm made up of bacteria adhering to the enamel surface of the teeth. Plaque is soft but over many days can gradually calcify. The hard...

Neandertal CSI revisited

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Discover has put an article online that they ran in the November issue, which features Steven Churchill’s research (“Did we mate with Neanderthals, or did we...

Real stories of the Neandertal CSI

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GRRRRRR! Why do I have to keep reading about how spearchucky modern humans went around killing Neandertals?

Shanidar photo

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I stumbled across a beautiful photo of Shanidar Cave on Flickr, by James Gordon (Creative Commons license).

Mmmm…that's good Neandertal protein in them bones

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A press release from Washington University describes recent work in extracting and sequencing a bone protein from two of the Shanidar Neandertals. The work ...