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Europe’s first humans hunted with bows and arrows
Neanderthal teeth, genetic material and stone tools have been found beneath Grotte Mandrin’s layer E, a cave site in southern France. The team said that layer E refers to an incursion of Homo sapiens into Neanderthal territory at least 10,000 years earlier before the species settled in Europe. The artefacts include hundreds of tiny points…
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Try to recreate the oldest cooked meal ever found.
Researchers at the University of Liverpool claim to have found the oldest-ever cooked meal, a recipe created by Neanderthals and Homo sapiens around 70,000 years ago. “The evidence that ancient humans pounded…pulses at Shanidar Cave 70,000 years ago…is the earliest direct evidence outside Africa of…processing of plants for food,” they said. Neanderthals were around 40,000…
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Mastodons were a part of the ancient culture of Greenland 2 million years ago.
Svante Pbo, a scientist who spent decades trying to extract DNA from 40,000-year-old bones and ultimately unveiled the Neanderthal genome in 2010, has won the 2019 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. Dalén Pbo’s team had obtained partial genomes of a million-year-old mammoth from Siberia in 2021. Ancient DNA suffers from chemical damage and tends…