Neanderthals had big noses simply because earlier hominids had them, according to palaeoanthropologist Nathan Holton. “A lot of these anatomical differences are probably more likely due to these chance changes,” agreed his colleague, Robert Franciscus. The two researchers studied the facial dimensions of Neanderthals and modern humans. The Associated Press has picked up the story of […]

Charcoal and seeds from a copper mine in southern Jordan have been dated to the tenth century B.C., touted as the time of the reign of the biblical King Solomon. It has been thought that a society complex enough to operate the large-scale mine in this area, known in the Bible as Edom, did not […]