About 7,000 years ago, a small group of Stone Age people sat around a fire, next to a small lake in what is now the Nefud Desert of northern Saudi Arabia. We found some of the tools they left behind – and on close inspection of the tools, we discovered these Stone Age herders were ...
From the remains of nearly 100 ancient individuals found in a Stone Age community, we have reconstructed two extensive prehistoric family trees from a 6,700-year-old cemetery in France, revealing fresh insights into the Stone Age community. Our new results, published in Nature, show a group of prehistoric farmers who lived within a network of other ...
An international team of researchers has recovered DNA from the owner of a deer-tooth pendant jewelry that was buried inside a remote Siberian cave for tens of thousands of years. In research published in Nature, Elena Essel of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Germany and colleagues detail how they developed a new ...
In the Stone Age, pendants with potent symbolism were made from animal teeth and bones, adorning clothes or accessories and serving as rattles. Human bones were also used as a raw material for pendants, as demonstrated by a study where burial finds dating back over 8,200 years were re-examined after 80 years. The finding is ...
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