October 14, 2024
How Can We Determine the Sex of Prehistoric Skeletons? This new scientific method provides an answer
Researchers from the universities of Valladolid, Murcia, Burgos, and Uppsala (Sweden) have developed a scientific method to determine the sex of prehistoric skeletons based on the so-called long bones - humeri, ulnae, radii, femora, and tibiae - with 95% accuracy.
Source: EFE
September 05, 2024
Discovering Atapuerca: How an Archaeological Site is Revolutionising Our Understanding of Human Evolution
Atapuerca, the site that is allowing us to understand who we are and where we come from.
Source: Muy Interesante
August 14, 2024
Sapiens and Neanderthals: Friendship in Difficult Times
More than 40,000 years ago, two different human lineages coexisted: Neanderthals and sapiens. We refer to them as lineages because both gave rise to a common descendant—ourselves. By Cristina de Juan Ortín . Faculty and researcher, member of the ART-QUEO research group, UNIR - Universidad Internacional de La Rioja.
Source: The Conversation
April 11, 2024
How Many Human Species Have Inhabited 'Spain'?
The Iberian Peninsula has some of the most interesting sites in Europe for studying human evolution.
Source: Muy Interesante
March 07, 2024
Human Tools 1.4 Million Years Old Found in Ukraine are the Oldest Ever Dated in Europe
The Korolevo archaeological site in Ukraine has become one of the two oldest sites with confirmed human presence in Europe, alongside Barranco León (Granada), where Spanish scientists also discovered a human milk tooth dating back 1.4 million years.
Source: El Mundo
November 20, 2023
We are not a violent species, despite what the news says
Source: The Conversation
Author: María Martinon, Director of CENIEH
August 29, 2023
Early Neolithic human remains from Galería del Sílex in Sierra de Atapuerca, Burgos, Spain
Source: ScienceDirect
August 10, 2023
Reply to Rak et al. (2021) “The DNH 7 skull of Australopithecus robustus from Drimolen (Main Quarry), South Africa” [J. Hum. Evol. 151 (2021), 102913]
Source: Journal of Human Evolution
August 08, 2023
Uncovering the adult morphology of the forearm bones from the Sima de los Huesos Site in Atapuerca (Spain), with comments on biomechanical features
Source: American Association for Anatomy
June 12, 2023
Main anatomical characteristics of the hominin fossil humeri from the Sima de los Huesos Middle Pleistocene site, Sierra de Atapuerca, Burgos, Spain: An update
Fuente: GeoUCMpublica
José-Miguel Carretero, Rebeca García-González, Laura Rodríguez, Juan-Luis Arsuaga
April 10, 2023
What color were Neandertals?
Even with whole genomes, scientists can't say very precisely what pattern of skin, hair, and eye pigmentation was in ancient populations like the Neandertals.
Source: John Hawks
Photograph: A collage of Neandertal faces as imagined by artists and exhibited in museums during the genome era. Artists include Alfons and Adrie Kennis, John Gurche, Elisabeth Daynès, Tom Björklund, Oscar Nilsson, and Fabio Fogliazza.
August 25, 2022
Seven-million-year-old femur suggests ancient human relative walked upright
Source: NATURE | Ewen Callaway
Image credit: Franck Guy/ Plaevoprim / CNRS - University of Poitiers.
January 04, 2022
NEW STUDY ON VISUAL BEHAVIOUR AND PALAEOLITHIC TOOLS
The CENIEH Paleoneurobiology Group has published a study analysing visual attention patterns during the exploration of images of stone tools or choppers and bifaces to find out to what extent attention is influenced by their morphology
SOURCE: CENIEH