What Types of Tools Did Neanderthals Use and Develop?
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The record of the Neanderthals is nothing short of spectacular. Countless sites contain the traces of the individuals who were…
Western Neanderthals already a fading light before arrival of modern humans
Archaeology News from Past Horizons,
Newly published results from an international team of researchers show that most of an earlier population of Neanderthals in…
Are we doomed?
The Biology Files,
#scidoomWhat is the real question here? There may really be two questions to address within the conceptualization of our doom.
Osama bin Laden, sasquatch and human biogeography
A Very Remote Period Indeed,
Science has a post on their website about a little study (Gillespie et al. 2009) that came out a couple of years ago that…
Targeted Retrieval and Analysis of Five Neandertal mtDNA Genomes – Adrian W. Briggs et al
Anthropology.net,
Although only the abstract to this paper is free to access, this story has received extensive coverage elsewhere over the past…
"Competitive exclusion" and the extinction of Neandertals: should we believe it?
John Hawks Weblog,
I've been out of e-mail range for the past week. In the meantime several people e-mailed me this new paper: Neanderthal…
Competition Caused Neanderthal Extinction
PALAEOBLOG,
Neanderthal Extinction by Competitive Exclusion. 2008. W.E. Banks, et al PLoS ONE 3(12): e3972.Art by Roy KrenkelNeanderthal…
La retirada de los neandertales de Europa está relacionada con la expansión de los Homo sapiens
Mundo Neandertal,
Según un nuevo estudio la retracción de los neandertales hacia el sudoeste de Europa no se debe a un cambio en el clima, ni a…
Anatomically modern humans outcompeted Neanderthals
Dienekes' Anthropology Blog,
There have been many Neanderthal stories this year. Here is a list:Did Cannibalism contribute to Neanderthal extinction?Archaeolo…
Neanderthals outcompeted by humans?
Pleiotropy,
Wouldn't you love it if the Neanderthals hadn't gone extinct, but were still living with us today? I'd give my right arm to see…
Neanderthals outcompeted by humans?
Pleiotropy,
Wouldn't you love it if the Neanderthals hadn't gone extinct, but were still living…