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Geotimes
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A Mistaken Link in Human History Reevaluating old dates of sites is quite valuable and is an exciting trend in paleoanthropology right now.   |
Geotimes
November 2007
Erin Wayman |
Sudden Climate Change Not Neanderthals' Downfall New research suggests abrupt climate change is not to blame for the extinction of Neanderthals. Instead, competition from modern humans probably played a large role. |
Geotimes
March 2007
Megan Sever |
Out of Africa and into Russia Researchers excavating at a well-known archaeological site in Russia have found evidence of the earliest-known modern humans in Europe, pushing back the dates of when modern humans arrived in Europe. |
Chemistry World
June 14, 2012
Laura Howes |
Uranium dating fingers Neanderthals as artists Researchers used U-Th ratios to date calcite deposits that overlaid the Paleolithic artwork to calculate a minimum age of the cave paintings. |
Geotimes
November 2006
Kathryn Hansen |
Neanderthal DNA Unraveled Probing fossil DNA for the genetic information of a long-extinct species might sound like a feat fit for Hollywood. For two research teams, however, the stunt is starting to become reality, as they have begun to unravel the genetic code of Neanderthals. |
Wired
July 2006
Annalee Newitz |
Code of the Caveman A new DNA mapping technique may solve an ancient mystery: Do modern humans carry Neanderthal genes? |
Geotimes
February 2007
Katherine Unger |
Climate to Blame in Cultural Collapses The Anasazi people in the Four Corners region of the American Southwest disappeared suddenly, possibly due to climate change that made food and water sources scarce. Researchers are now linking several past periods of climate change with failed civilizations. |
Geotimes
March 2005
Laura Stafford |
New Neanderthal Knowledge Recent studies are making links -- both genetic and morphologic -- between Neanderthals and modern people, thus helping to put together the pieces of the human evolution puzzle. |
Smithsonian
October 2006
Steve Olson |
Neanderthal Man Svante Paabo has probed the DNA of Egyptian mummies and extinct animals. Now he hopes to learn more about what makes us tick by decoding the DNA of our evolutionary cousins. |
Geotimes
June 2006
Erika Engelhaupt |
Warming Opened Americas to Humans About 18,000 years ago the comparatively luxuriant Americas beckoned to hunter-gatherers in eastern Asia by way of present-day Alaska, with warmer climes and plenty of fish and game, say geoarchaeologists. |
Smithsonian
February 2007
Eric Jaffe |
Meditate on It Could ancient campfire rituals have separated us from Neanderthals? |
IEEE Spectrum
July 2010
Prachi Patel |
Computing the Neanderthal Genome New software helped decode the DNA of our stone-age cousins |
Chemistry World
July 16, 2009
James Urquhart |
New DNA technique sheds light on ancient populations A new sequencing technique that is cheaper and less wasteful has been used to decode and analyse the mitochondrial genomes of five Neanderthal individuals. |
