The graves of three Neanderthal individuals have been unearthed in southeastern Spain, at the site of Sima de las Palomas, the first known Neanderthal burial ground in Mediterranean Europe. “Such discoveries are extraordinarily uncommon,” said Michael Walker of the University of Murcia.  Here’s more information on the brick tombs and a well uncovered in Hanoi […]

Italian police uncovered a 2,000-year-old mausoleum near Naples that had been buried under tons of illegally dumped garbage.  Markings on fossilized front teeth indicate that right-handedness has dominated in Europeans for at least 500,000 years. “These marks were produced when a stone tool was accidentally dragged across the labial face in an activity performed at […]