Tag: Siberia
Pollen analysis suggests dispersal of modern humans occurred during a major Pleistocene warming spell
It's an Ice Age mystery that's been debated for decades among anthropologists: Exactly when and how did the flow of Homo sapiens in Eurasia...
Europe’s ancient languages shed light on a great migration and weather talk
Painstaking archaeological exploration is a familiar, often widely admired, method of unearthing history. Less celebrated, but also invaluable, is the piecing together of fragments...
3,000-year-old intact burial of ‘charioteer’ discovered in Siberia
Archaeologists conducting excavations in Siberia have made a significant discovery, unearthing an impeccably preserved tomb believed to be around 3,000 years old. The tomb...
New study sheds light on the evolution of animals
A study led by the University of Oxford has brought us one step closer to solving a mystery that has puzzled naturalists since Charles...
Scientists recover an ancient woman’s DNA from a 20,000-year-old pendant discovered in Denisova Cave
An international research team led by the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, has for the first time successfully isolated ancient...
New tusk-analysis techniques reveal surging testosterone in male woolly mammoths
Traces of sex hormones extracted from a woolly mammoth's tusk provide the first direct evidence that adult males experienced musth, a testosterone-driven episode of...