Tag: Prehistory
Bury genomes show a population turnover in the Paris Basin
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in ArchaeologyGenetic analysis of 132 ancient genomes from Paris Basin reveals population discontinuity during Neolithic decline, with disease and environmental change driving northward ancestry shift around.
Human remains in Heaning Wood Bone Cave span three prehistoric phases
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in ArchaeologyHeaning Wood Bone Cave in Cumbria yielded the earliest human remains from northern Britain (9290–8925 cal BC) plus Neolithic and Bronze Age burials.
Poison traces found on 60,000-year-old Southern African microliths
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in ArchaeologyMicrochemical biomolecular analyses detected Amaryllidaceae alkaloids on backed microliths from Umhlatuzana, providing direct evidence of Boophone-derived arrow poisons at ~60 ka.
