Link: Article on changing perspectives on Neandertals
A couple of years ago I pointed to a news article about archaeological work at Descubierta Cave, Spain: “Link: Neandertal burial ritual with antler hearths”....
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Link: Neandertal burial ritual with antler hearths
A Neandertal “burial ritual” at Des-Cubierta Cave? “Cave fires and rhino skull used in Neanderthal burial rituals”.
Atxurra cave art discovery in Spain
The Guardian reports on a recent cave art discovery in Spain: “Spanish archaeologists discover cave art to rival country’s best”.
Notable: Chimpanzee butchery to study ancient cannibalism
Notable paper: Saladié P, Cáceres I, Huguet R, Rodríguez-Hidalgo A, Santander B, et al. (2015) Experimental Butchering of a Chimpanzee Carcass for Archaeolog...
Notable: Sima de los Huesos taphonomy
Notable paper: Sala, Nohemi, Juan-Luis Arsuaga, Ignacio Martínez and Ana Gracia-Téllez (2015) Breakage patterns in Sima de los Huesos (Atapuerca, Spain) hom...
Mailbag: Neandertal ancestry and the Basques
the Franco-Hispano Neanderthal caves provide us with many finds. do Basque (Euskara) people share more NEANDERTHAL genes than other Europeans? the Basque (...
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”.
Blombos pigment workshop
I know that some readers are starting to wonder if I’ve forgotten about paleoanthropology lately. Let’s just say that the Neandertal and Denisova genomes hav...
Neandertal band of brothers
Carles Lalueza-Fox and colleagues Lalueza-Fox:patrilocal:2010 have a new analysis of the mitochondrial DNA from El Sidrón, Spain. The site has a minimum numb...
Site: Atapuerca
Atapuerca - 53, originally uploaded by Sitomon. I like to feature Flickr Creative Commons photos that show archaeological sites. This one is from Atapue...
Just ducky
A week or two ago, I was pointed by a press release to some recent research from Bolomor Cave, Spain, where the levels occupied by early/pre-Neandertals have...
Sima species
Michael Balter has a nice Science writeup of the recent Gibraltar conference, “Human Evolution 150 Years After Darwin.”
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...
The spotty Acheulean
Scott and Gibert report in today’s Nature on the “oldest handaxes” in Europe:
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” ...