Natural varnish may protect 37,000-year-old Chauvet Cave art, UV scans show
Deep inside a limestone cave in southeastern France sits some of the oldest art ever made by people.…
DNA Shows Ice Age Europeans Roamed Far Across Continent
Ice Age Europeans apparently weren’t homebodies. A new DNA study of remains from caves in France, Spain,…
Humans Accidentally Canceled the Next Ice Age, Scientists Say
For billions of years, Earth has experienced periodic glacial cycles governed by its orbit around the Sun. No…
Arctic ice had been expanding for at least 1,000 years before reaching its greatest extent around 1960; researchers say greenhouse warming then reversed a natural slide toward another ice age
Reducing ice cap due to global warming. A new study suggests that the Arctic was already moving towards…
Ancient DNA shows Ice Age Europeans stayed connected across long distances
People who lived in Europe more than 30,000 years ago were more connected than scientists believed. A team…
Last chance to see the La Brea Tar Pits before they close for 2 years
With LACMA’s new David Geffen Galleries just steps away, it may be easy to forget that we have…
Neanderthals May Have Used Birch Tar as Natural Antibiotic
New experiments show that tar made from birch bark — long known as a tool adhesive — can…
Japanese Archipelago Was Once a Refuge for Cave Lions
Between 73,000 and 20,000 years ago (Late Pleistocene), the Japanese Archipelago was inhabited by cave lions (Panthera spelaea),…
News – New Dates Obtained for Mammoth-Bone Structure in Ukraine – Archaeology Magazine
News – New Dates Obtained for Mammoth-Bone Structure in Ukraine Archaeology Magazine 18,000 years ago, ice age humans built…
Neanderthals and early humans reshaped Europe’s landscapes long before the rise of agriculture, study finds
A recent study published in PLOS One reveals that Neanderthals and early modern humans began to reshape Europe’s…