German andn scientists have sequenced the Neanderthal genome from the Siberian cave Chagyrskaya, reported in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. You get DNA from a finger, was found in 2011. The quality of coverage for the genome Read more
Austrian scientists found that most of the portraits painted in profile space in front of the depicted character more than him. It concerns portraits by European artists, written in the XV–XX centuries: from 1831 portraits on 1395 distance from the Read more
Mathematics counted the proportions that Leonardo da Vinci used in the “Vitruvian man”, for modern men and women. In General, the proportions close, but the hands and feet of people of the XXI century turned out to be longer than Read more
A thick beard appeared in men, probably to protect the lower jaw from fractures, and write in Integrative Organismal Biology. This is indicated by the results of experiments on models of the jaws with the hair on them. Samples with Read more
The population of people who became the ancestors of the native Americans, formed not later than 14 thousand years ago near lake Baikal in the result of a long mixing of ancient Siberian and far Eastern populations. An article about Read more
Anthropologists have described the new finds of bones and tools of Homo sapiens from the Bulgarian Bacho Kiro cave. The age of people estimated more than 45 thousand years, making them the oldest sapiens discovered in Europe. Finds articles in Read more
Mexican scientists described three ways of opening the chest that was used by the priests of Mesoamerica, to cut the heart in human sacrifice. In an article published in Current Anthropology, States that the Aztecs and Mayans, using stone knives Read more
Archaeologists have proved that a thin cord was found in the Parking lot of Neanderthal in France, is manufactured by spinning — he twisted of the three wood fibers. This gave scientists reason to believe that Neanderthals, in addition, knew Read more
Researchers have found a link between migration to Europe in the Neolithic and bronze age immigrants from the Middle East and from the black sea region and reduction of the areas of deciduous forests on the continent. Article published in Read more
Paleoanthropologists held the most accurate at the moment the Dating of recent finds of skulls from the cave complex Drimolen in South Africa. The age of the Australopithecines, humans and paranthropus from Drimolen was essentially the same: 1,95–2,04 million years. Read more