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Los cazadores de bisontes de Raymonden, un pendiente de hueso donde muestra una escena del Epipaleolítico (18000-10000 a.C.), donde siete personas descuartizan a un búfalo. 🏛️Museo de Arte y Arqueología de Périgord #paleolitico #paleolithic

Trozo de hueso donde hay un dibujo de una cabeza de búfalo seguida de lo que parece una espina de pescado (su columna vertebral) y varias personas a cada lado.

What does it feel like to walk in the 80 thousand year-old footprints of our Neanderthal cousins? Amazing!!

Come visit two of only eight sites in the world! 👣❤️🇵🇹
#Neanderthal #AncientHumans #Prehistory #Portugal #archaeology #findsFriday #Paleolithic

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4tIiJIIkRzc

A lavish Ice Age burial in Italy now tells a darker story. New forensic analysis shows a 15-year-old, “Il Principe,” was likely mauled by a bear 27,000 years ago, offering rare evidence of humans as prey. #Paleolithic #HumanEvolution #Archaeology https://www.anthropology.net/p/the-prince-and-the-bear

Hafted stone tools from Xigou, China, dated to 160,000 to 72,000 years ago, reveal deep traditions of composite technology in East Asia. The findings challenge old ideas of technological simplicity. #Paleolithic #HumanEvolution #Archaeology https://www.anthropology.net/p/the-forest-on-a-handle-how-early

Two rare wooden tools from Greece, dated to 430,000 years ago, reveal a hidden side of early hominin technology. These fragile artifacts hint at a vanished world of organic tools that shaped daily life. #Paleoanthropology #Archaeology #HumanEvolution #Paleolithic @kharvati https://www.anthropology.net/p/the-tools-that-time-almost-erased

A revised radiocarbon chronology of the monumental 18,000 y/o Upper #Paleolithic #mammoth bone structures of Mezhyrich in central #Ukraine suggests, it may have been used used for up to 429 years:

https://www.sci.news/archaeology/mammoth-bone-structures-ukraine-14448.html

A revised radiocarbon chronology of the monumental 18,000 y/o Upper #Paleolithic #mammoth bone structures of Mezhyrich in central #Ukraine suggests, it may have been used used for up to 429 years: 🏺 www.sci.news/archaeology/...

18,000-Year-Old Circular Dwell...

New research refines marine radiocarbon corrections for Magdalenian Spain, showing that different shell species age differently. The result is a sharper timeline for coastal Ice Age life and cave occupations. #Radiocarbon #Paleolithic #Archaeology #HumanEvolution https://www.anthropology.net/p/when-shellfish-skew-the-clock

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

https://www.ansa.it/canale_scienza/notizie/ragazzi/news/2026/01/12/scoperte-le-piu-antiche-armi-avvelenate-sono-frecce-di-60mila-anni-fa_ded6ef08-2cb0-4fd4-b0c0-4d8c116997c1.html

#archaeology #prehistory #paleolithic #africa

13,000 years ago, early Europeans used blue azurite pigment, not for cave art, but likely for body decoration and textiles. This discovery rewrites what we know about Paleolithic creativity and symbolism.
#Archaeology #History #AncientSecrets #Paleolithic #Discovery ##Storytelling #DidYouKnow #HistoryFacts #DocumentaryShort #WeirdHistory
Read more: https://www.ancient-origins.net/artifacts-ancient-technology-news-history-archaeology-history-ancient-traditions/europe-s-oldest

Chapter 2 of Pathogenesis — Jonathan Kennedy 20241 concerns Paleolithic Plagues, in part how Western Hunter Gatherers were replaced by Neolithic European Farmers about 5000 years ago.

Could diseases have helped a relatively small community of shepherds to replace a well-established farming society in northern Europe in the first half of the fifth millennium BCE? Although we don’t yet have a smoking gun, there is strong circumstantial evidence that indicates this might have been the case…
It is highly likely that the sharp fall in the population that occurred in Britain and the rest of western Europe about 5,000 years ago was caused by a “Neolithic Black Death.” But this devastating epidemic differed from the fourteenth-century Black Death in one crucial respect. Yersinia pestis did not evolve into a flea-borne bubonic plague until the beginning of the first millennium BCE…
Could the plague have been the cause of the population crash between 5,500 and 5,000 years ago? Did Yersinia pestis contribute to the decline of the first farming people who built Stonehenge?

One supposition in the book is that unable to jump from rats via fleas, it was spread human to human by coughing/sneezing.

Now there is proof of sheep hosting the Late Neolithic Bronze Age (LNBA) plague.
https://archaeologymag.com/2025/12/a-4000-year-old-sheep-bronze-age-plague/

An international team of researchers has found the DNA of Y. pestis in a 4,000-year-old domesticated sheep from the fortified Bronze Age settlement of Arkaim, in the southern Ural Mountains in present-day Russia, which marks the first confirmed case of a Bronze Age plague infection in a non-human host. It proves that livestock played a role in prehistoric plague dynamics.

https://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674(25)00851-7

Although the reservoir or directionality of the infections is unknown, the identification of Y. pestis in an ancient domesticate suggests that sheep husbandry elevated the possibilities for transmission to and from humans.

1If you are currently living through a pandemic, this book is relevant and fascinating.

#bookstodon #pandemic #paleolithic #plague