Gene That Differs Between Humans and Neanderthals Could Shed Light On The Species Disappearance Mouse Study Suggests  – Online Marketing Scoops https://onlinemarketingscoops.com/2025/08/28/neanderthals-gene-study/
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#anthropology #archeology #genes #human #science #neanderthals

Funerary practice of #Iberian #Neanderthals

https://cenieh.es/en/press/news/traces-neanderthal-funerary-behaviors-unearthed-iberian-peninsula

Denisovan and Neanderthal DNA helped the first Americans survive, study finds

The first people to set foot in the Americas crossed with them not only stone technology and survival skills across the icy expanse of the Bering Strait. Along with these, a new study published in Science indicates that they also carried a genetic legacy inherited from two extinct relatives—Neanderthals and Denisovans—that could have helped them survive in a new and unfamiliar environment.
#Denisovans #Neanderthals #genetics #
https://archaeologymag.com/2025/08/denisovan-dna-helped-the-first-americans/

There are ghost stories about many different places on Earth.

I find it interesting that the vast majority of those ghost stories are no more than a few hundred years old.

There are no ghosts that I’m aware of who are from the Bronze Age or who were once Neanderthals or dinosaurs.

The lore should be updated to explain why this is so. Do ghosts get bored of haunting a place after a while?

#Ghosts #Folklore #Dinosaurs #Neanderthals

An incredible #Denisovan #skull is upending the story of #human #evolution

Now it turns out they, not #Neanderthals, might be our closest relatives

#paleontology #history

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2492337-an-incredible-denisovan-skull-is-upending-the-story-of-human-evolution/

An incredible #Denisovan #skull is upending the story of #human #evolution Now it turns out they, not #Neanderthals, might be our closest relatives #paleontology #history www.newscientist.com/article/2492...

An incredible Denisovan skull ...

#Neanderthals (/niˈændərˌtɑːl, neɪ-, -ˌθɑːl/ nee-AN-də(r)-TAHL, nay-, -⁠THAHL;[8] Homo neanderthalensis or sometimes H. sapiens neanderthalensis) are an extinct group of archaic humans who inhabited Europe and Western and Central Asia

#Neanderthals (/niˈændərˌtɑːl, neɪ-, -ˌθɑːl/ nee-AN-də(r)-TAHL, nay-, -⁠THAHL;[8] Homo neanderthalensis or sometimes H. sapiens neanderthalensis) are an extinct group of archaic humans who inhabited Europe and Western and Central Asia

Examining Middle to Upper #Palaeolithic in Caucasus regions, including possible interactions of #Homosapiens and #Neanderthals

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0277379125003762

𝟳𝟬,𝟬𝟬𝟬-𝗬𝗲𝗮𝗿-𝗢𝗹𝗱 𝗡𝗲𝗮𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗿𝘁𝗵𝗮𝗹 𝗧𝗼𝗼𝗹 𝗙𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘆 𝗙𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗱 𝗶𝗻 𝗣𝗼𝗹𝗮𝗻𝗱
Archaeologists in Poland discover a 70,000-year-old Neanderthal workshop where ancient humans repaired tools used to butcher Ice Age giants. This remarkable find challenges our understanding of Neanderthal intelligence and technological sophistication.
#neanderthals #prehistoric #ancienthistory #ancientorigns

Nice primer here with Chris Stringer and a bunch of skulls on the later #Homo lineages, and the question of the common ancestor of us, #Neanderthals and #Denisovans

https://youtu.be/MA1cHPJPZfM?si=uFINCz3wnq00yGda

#RobertoSaez on the #Skhul 1 child (3-5 yrs old girl), c.140 Ka, considered as a hybrid of #Hsapiens and #Neanderthals.

#fosdils #palaeoanthropology #MiddleEast

https://nutcrackerman.com/2025/07/23/skhul-1-un-craneo-infantil-con-indicios-de-hibridacion/

Neanderthals ate maggots and fermented meat, not just fresh meat, challenging hypercarnivore theory

For generations, scientists believed Neanderthals were high-order carnivores, subsisting on large game. Their fossilized bones indicated they had high levels of nitrogen-15, a chemical marker of diets rich in meat, even greater than those of lions and wolves. But a recent study brings something surprising...

More info: https://archaeologymag.com/2025/07/neanderthals-ate-maggots-and-fermented-meat/

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#archaeology #neanderthals

@MeanwhileinCanada

Objection, this is libellous against #primates, #neanderthals, et al...

Neanderthal genes linked to rare brain-skull disorder, study finds

A recent study shows that Neanderthal DNA from ancient times can cause a neurological condition known as Chiari Malformation Type I (CM-I), where a part of the brain protrudes through the base of the skull into the spinal canal...

More information: https://archaeologymag.com/2025/07/neanderthal-genes-linked-to-brain-skull-disorder/

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#archaeology #archeology #archaeologynews #anthropology #Neanderthals #chiarimalformation #humanevolution #homosapiens

This looks like it's along the right lines, but I'm not certain I'd agree about these differences between us and #Neanderthals and #Denisovans. That may be more to do with demographics.

Sarah Hrdy, the originator of cooperative childcare/aka babysitting as the basis for mutual mind reading, would put it back to H erectus, and there are strong reasons for that constraint. So in itself that is not an account for #Hsapiens (as against Neanderthals). The idea that huge-brained Denisovans were not doing a lot of the same damn things -- looking after incredibly costly children -- is pretty questionable.

Our own Chris Knight and Jerome Lewis are shortly going to publish a book with a lot of answers to the puzzle of #language: 'The First Word was No'.

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/aug/06/the-origin-of-language-by-madeleine-beekman-review-the-suprising-history-of-speech?CMP=bsky_gu&utm_source=Bluesky&utm_medium#Echobox=1754476081

#Neanderthals may have eaten maggots from rotting meat according to the unusually high nitrogen levels in their bones.

https://www.vice.com/en/article/neanderthals-ate-maggot-filled-meat-on-purpose-heres-why/

#science #archaeology #food

🦴🍖 New research reveals Neanderthals didn’t just feast on fresh meat—they likely ate fermented meat with maggots! These nutrient-rich larvae could explain the mysterious nitrogen signatures in their bones, reshaping our view of their diet and survival strategies. 🪱🔬 #Neanderthals #AncientDiet #PaleoLife https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/07/fermented-meat-with-a-side-of-maggots-a-new-look-at-the-neanderthal-diet/
#newz

Fermented meat with a side of maggots: A new look at the Neanderthal diet https://arstechni.ca/vfsm #anthropology #Neanderthals #syndication #Science

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Given the latest scientific research, it is only a matter of time before some valiant entrepreneur offers freeze-dried maggots as a supplement to gullible eat-like-a- Neanderthal knuckleheads.

All that and more in the latest edition at

https://buttondown.com/jeremycherfas/archive/etn-277-empty-calories/

#archaeology #newsletter #Neanderthals