More than 43,000 years ago, #Neanderthals spent centuries collecting animal skulls in a cave. The selection, treatment, and placement of horned animal skulls in a cave highlights cultural practices not directly related to survival.
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#Neanderthals
A sweet little read - especially for the fibre artists among us - with a great close: “In other words, Neanderthals were a long way from inventing algebra, but they obviously had a great grasp of string theory.”
https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/04/neanderthals-made-the-worlds-oldest-thread/
#FibreArt #FibreArts #spinningAndPlying #Neanderthals #string
Deep inside a Spanish cave, Neanderthals repeatedly placed horned animal skulls over tens of millennia. Spatial analyses show deliberate, symbolic behavior shaped by tradition, not chance. #Neanderthals #Paleoanthropology #Archaeology https://www.anthropology.net/p/horns-in-the-dark
Stone tools from a high-altitude Alpine bear cave show Neanderthals carried curated toolkits into rugged terrain. The finds point to planning, seasonal mobility, and life well beyond valley floors. #Neanderthals #Paleolithic #Archaeology https://www.anthropology.net/p/above-the-tree-line-with-neanderthals
‘Buying countries is Stone Age mentality:’ #Inuit speak up on #Greenland.' Totally!!! https://canadiangeographic.ca/articles/buying-countries-is-stone-age-mentality-inuit-speak-up-on-greenland/
„What has 6 fingers on a cave wall?“
„An AI slop of Neanderthal life.“
We've been collecting trophies for a long time. For a very long time apparently, as these skulls of #horned herbivores at the #DesCubiertaCave in #Spain seem to suggest, which have been accumulated by ... #Neanderthals:
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Neanderthals accumulated the s...
We've been collecting trophies for a long time. For a very long time apparently, as these skulls of #horned herbivores at the #DesCubiertaCave in #Spain seem to suggest, which have been accumulated by ... #Neanderthals:
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Early #hominins from #Morocco reveal an African lineage near the root of #HomoSapiens
773,000-year-old fossils from Thomas Quarry I in Morocco illuminate the shared ancestry of Homo sapiens, #Neanderthals, and #Denisovans
The Year in #Neanderthals: They drew with crayons, possibly fed on maggots and maybe even kissed us: Forty millenniums later, our ancient human cousins continued to make news.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/03/science/archaeology-neanderthals-genetics.html
Fascinating #fossils from #Morocco help shed light on the transition from early hominins to the lineage that later gave rise to modern humans, #Neanderthals, and #Denisovans. 🦴
Some traits look ancient, others are newer. The mix suggests these individuals were part of an African population close to the root of our lineage.
Early hominins from Morocco basal to the Homo sapiens lineage | Nature
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-09914-y
We have a fossil closer to our split with Neanderthals and Denisovans https://arstechni.ca/9w5F #paleoanthropology #humanevolution #anthropology #Neanderthals #Archaeology #homoerectus #Denisovans #hominins #Science
The Year in Neanderthals.
They drew with crayons, possibly fed on maggots and maybe even kissed us: Forty millenniums later, our ancient human cousins continued to make news.
More than a dozen high-profile scientific studies explored all sorts of aspects of their existence, from their love lives (they probably kissed Homo sapiens) to potential flaws in their red blood cells that may have hastened their decline.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/03/science/archaeology-neanderthals-genetics.html #globalmuseum #Neanderthals
A strong position but we always take notice of archaeologist João Zilhão, that #Neanderthals are just #Homosapiens really. Chris Stringer would not comply!
Interesting.
"The newly-analyzed tooth belonged to a male Denisovan who lived about 200,000 years ago, at a time when modern humans had not yet left Africa."
So, more importantly, this research apparently provides evidence that #Asians evolved from #Denisovans living in Siberia around 200,000 yrs ago, prior to & separately from other racial groups who evolved from other human ancestors that originated in Africa; the only common link apparently being interbreeding of these separate racial groups with the #Neanderthals, which itself was a separate human sub-species.
🦴 Neanderthals were no dumb brutes. They made fire, painted with ocher, ate their enemies, left fingerprints and even shared our blood until it killed them. New finds say our ancient cousins were clever, brutal, and doomed by biology itself.
Intelligence existed without continuity. Innovation without inheritance. Biology carried costs that culture could not offset. Interbreeding preserved fragments while erasing the whole.
#Neanderthals https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/human-evolution/10-things-we-learned-about-neanderthals-in-2025
Making fire in UK 400ky ago...! That age, a very long interglacial with stable comfy climate all round, also goes by the poetic name MIS11. And, maybe on Wiki, I once read a lament by a scientist about #MIS11 that UK was hardly ever settled and if people dwelled there at all, they made zilch contribution to progress. Boooring Britain 😩
Hope he's still around and partying now! 💃🕺🍻
https://apnews.com/article/britain-archaeology-fire-neanderthals-evolution-suffolk-3698b87f707ac4ca1719b5f0214f7064
#archaeology #archeology #Neanderthals
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