Lumps of black manganese pigment crafted into drawing implements indicate that Neanderthals communicated, and imply that they could speak, according to Francesco d’Errico of the University of Bordeaux. Such drawing tools have been found at 39 Neanderthal sites across Europe. Examination of the skeletons from Akhenaten’s city, Tell el-Amarna, shows that ordinary Egyptians suffered from […]

A jawbone and teeth dating between 1.1 and 1.2 million years ago were discovered at Sima del Elefante, in Spain’s Atapuerca region. “It is the oldest human fossil yet found in Western Europe,” said Jose Maria Bermudez de Castro of Spain’s National Research Center on Human Evolution.  DNA studies of two lion skulls from the […]