These days, revellers converge on the West Country from all parts of the UK and beyond to take part in the wonderful craziness of the Glastonbury festival. It turns out that at the end of the bronze age – also a time of climatic and economic crisis – the same sort of impulse gripped people. Experts have been examining animal …
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News – Ancient DNA Pinpoints Culprit Responsible for World’s First Pandemic Archaeology Magazine The “Plague Of Justinian” May Have Been The First Pandemic. DNA At A Mass Grave Has Finally Identified Its Cause. IFLScience Scientists discover bacterium responsible for first epidemic in human history Caliber.Az The Justinian Plague: How climate and trade fuelled the first pandemic in history Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften 1,500-year-old mystery …
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Read More »Denisovan and Neanderthal DNA helped the first Americans survive, study finds Archaeology News Online Magazine The first Americans had Denisovan DNA. And it may have helped them survive. yahoo.com DNA from extinct hominin may have helped ancient peoples survive in the Americas Phys.org Denisovan Mucus Gene May Have Helped Humans Survive in The Americas ScienceAlert Extinct human relatives left a genetic gift that helped …
Read More »Mystery hominin skull discovered in 1960 dated to at least 286,000 years old Archaeology News Online Magazine Mystery Greek hominin skull dated to be at least 286,000 years old Phys.org Hominin skull discovered in 1960 finally gets an accurate age Popular Science 300,000-Year-Old Skull Shows Neanderthals Lived Alongside Another Ancient Human Ancestor IFLScience Archaeology breakthrough as mystery of 286,000-year-old skull finally ‘solved’ Daily Express Source …
Read More »Genetic mutation in key enzyme may explain why humans survived while Neanderthals went extinct Archaeology News Online MagazineView Full Coverage on Google News Source link
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Read More »Reconstructions reveal faces of Neolithic sisters buried 6,000 years ago Archaeology News Online Magazine See ‘hyperrealistic’ reconstructions of 2 Stone Age sisters who worked in brutal mine in the Czech Republic 6,000 years ago Live Science Source link
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