Image via Wikipedia Articles general
- Neanderthal - "The Neanderthal is an extinct member of the Homo genus that is known from Pleistocene specimens found in Europe and parts of western and central Asia." - Wikipedia
- Were Neandertals and Modern Humans Just Ships in the Night? - "A new radiocarbon dating study of a Neandertal site in Russia concludes... that Neandertals and modern humans were probably like ships in the night. (have met only for a shorter period) - History News Network - May 11, 2011
- Neanderthals' Last Stand Possibly Found - "A newly found prehistoric toolkit suggests Neanderthals may have lingered in Russia's Ural Mountains as recently as 33,000 years ago." - Discovery News - May 12, 2011
- Neanderthals Were Overwhelmingly Right-Handed - "Neanderthals and their likely ancestors were overwhelmingly right-handed, according to investigation into fossilized teeth excavated in Spanish and other European caves." - Discovery News - April 21, 2011
- Did Neanderthals Believe in an Afterlife? - "A possible Neanderthal burial ground suggests that they practiced funeral rituals and possessed symbolic thought before modern humans." - Discovery News - April 20, 2011
- Stone tool troves point to highland Neanderthals - "High in the wind-swept mountain ridges of northern Greece, archaeologists have made a surprising discovery: hundreds of prehistoric stone tools that may have been used by some of the last Neanderthals in Europe, at a time when hunter-gatherers were thought to have kept to much lower altitudes. The two sites used between 50,000 to 35,000 years ago..." - Forbes.com - March 9, 2011
- Did Neanderthals use feathers for fashion? - "...archaeologists ... say they have evidence that Neanderthals were using feathers as ornaments 44,000 years ago..." - New Scientist - Feb 21, 2011
- Ancient humans, but not their evolutionary cousins [Neanderthal], had heels for running - Science News - Feb 3, 2011
- The Neanderthal Nose Enigma: Why So Big? - Live Science - Jan 14, 2011
- Neanderthals cooked and ate vegetables - BBC - Dec. 27, 2010
- Neanderthal genes 'survive in us' - "Between 1% and 4% of the Eurasian human genome seems to come from Neanderthals." - BBC News, May 6, 2010
- Should We Clone Neanderthals? - The scientific, legal, and ethical obstacles - Includes information about Neanderthals - archaeology.org - March/April 2010
- * Dr. Jean-Jacques Hublin: Neanderthals Deciphered - The latest information about Neanderthals in this 1 1/2 hour video - Scientists are using new techniques such as plotting skulls and measuring the difference between one hominin and another in order to discover how far species are apart. They also use a technique similar to dendrochronology, which is to find information based on tree-rings, but now for teeth. Add to that the study of DNA and we're in for an exciting new discoveries. - Jan 2011
Up Human races
This page is still being updated and complemented. Please submit your suggestions in a comment.
No comments:
Post a Comment