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En una cueva del sur de Italia, un neandertal sigue exactamente donde murió hace más de 130.000 años.

Lo conocen como el Hombre de Altamura y su hallazgo sigue siendo uno de los descubrimientos más impresionantes de la paleoantropología europea.
Fue encontrado en la cueva de Lamalunga, cerca de Altamura, en la región italiana de Apulia, y lo extraordinario no es solo su antigüedad, sino su estado de conservación.

No apareció como unos pocos huesos dispersos ni como un cráneo aislado.
Su esqueleto permanece casi completo, atrapado dentro de una estrecha cámara subterránea, cubierto lentamente durante milenios por capas de calcita.
El agua filtrada por la roca fue depositando minerales sobre su cuerpo hasta fusionarlo literalmente con la cueva.

La propia naturaleza lo conservó… y al mismo tiempo lo encerró.

Esa calcita protegió sus huesos con un nivel de detalle excepcional, pero también hace casi imposible extraerlo sin dañarlo.
Por eso, décadas después de su descubrimiento, el Hombre de Altamura sigue allí, inmóvil, medio oculto entre las formaciones rocosas, como una fotografía detenida en plena prehistoria.

Los investigadores han tenido que estudiarlo con enorme cuidado, utilizando cámaras especiales, escáneres y pequeñas muestras para no alterar demasiado el entorno.
Gracias a eso pudieron analizar su mandíbula, sus dientes y parte de su ADN, confirmando que pertenecía al Homo neanderthalensis.

Las dataciones lo sitúan entre los neandertales más antiguos y mejor conservados jamás encontrados.

Pero quizá lo más impactante no sea solo la ciencia.

Es la sensación de estar observando a alguien que nunca abandonó realmente su lugar en el mundo.
No fue enterrado en un museo ni separado de la tierra que lo atrapó.
Sigue unido a la piedra, como si la cueva hubiera decidido guardarlo para siempre.

No está simplemente dentro de la historia.

Forma parte de ella.

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Mit dem Laborjournal Blog geht es diesmal zurück in der Zeit. Etwa 400.000 Jahre zurück zum Homo neanderthalensis und dem #Ernährungskanibalismus: Über archäologische Funde, wie viele Kalorien eine erwachsene Person mit sich trägt und warum das Ernährungsmodell trotzdem nicht Bestand hatte – Der Artikel von Henrik Müller: https://www.laborjournal.de/blog/

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Good afternoon. 🌸💮🪷

17 December 2025

I’ve always been fascinated by human history, though I’m far from being deeply educated in the details. Recently, I’ve watched a few clips online about our taxonomic cousins, the Neanderthals (Homo neanderthalensis). Modern humans, of course, are Homo sapiens.

Back in college, decades ago, I took an introductory course in Anthropology. That was the first time I recall reading about Neanderthals, and I found them fascinating. I would have liked to learn more, but my academic focus was on computing, so I pursued that path instead. Still, I can imagine the appeal of studying ancient cultures and extinct human species.

As I mentioned, I’m not especially learned on the subject, but Neanderthals lived alongside modern humans for tens of thousands of years. Isn’t that remarkable—another species of human existing at the same time? They weren’t our direct ancestors in the taxonomic sense; rather, they evolved from a common ancestor, likely Homo heidelbergensis, about 500,000–800,000 years ago. I’d like to read more about that lineage.

While not our ancestors in the strict taxonomic sense, Neanderthals are our ancestors in the biological sense. It’s well established that modern humans and Neanderthals interbred, and today most non-African populations carry about 1–2% Neanderthal DNA. In that way, their lineage continues within us.

“Neanderthal people were collateral cousins, perhaps already living in Europe while we emerged in Africa… We are an improbable and fragile entity, fortunately successful after precarious beginnings as a small population in Africa, not the predictable end result of a global tendency.” - Stephen Jay Gould (paleontologist)

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Good morning. 🫖☕😃

7 October 2025

The weather report I checked this morning said we can expect it to be partly sunny. I found that curious — why not partly cloudy? I appreciate the glass-half-full sentiment, though. Technically, the sun is always present, albeit sometimes obscured from our direct view by clouds or by the Earth itself. Clouds, however, come and go, so partly cloudy feels more accurate. Or is it more correct? I tried correcter, but it got the dreaded red squiggly underline. So yes — more correct is correct. Now that I’ve corrected that, I can move on.

The sun has always been and always will be. Well, like all things, it will eventually go away — but not within our wee little lifetimes, which are but a fraction of a second in the grand scheme of things. As far as humans go — or life on Earth, for that matter — the sun has always been. To be sure, Earth will cease to exist long before the sun does. Scientists predict that Earth will likely be snuffed out by the sun when it becomes a red giant in a mere 5 billion years or so.

Yes, it’s likely that humans won’t always be — but they will always be in our lifetimes 😜. I read a headline this morning about the discovery of a 57,000-year-old artifact. The headline claimed the object, which bore carvings, wasn’t created by humans. But when I read further, I discovered the carvings were made by Neanderthal people — which gave me pause 🤔. Wait a minute, weren’t Homo neanderthalensis human? Homo means “man,” you know.

Oh no! I’m running out of space and need to wrap this up. Homo neanderthalensis were human, just like Homo sapiens — different species, yes, but they interbred. So were they really that different, way back when?

“Somewhere in our DNA must lie the key mutation... that makes us the sort of creature that could wipe out its nearest relative, then dig up its bones and reassemble its genome.” — Elizabeth Kolbert

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Evolution of Humanity (Tama-Kyu)
Written by Guest

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Review and images by bmathison1972; edited by Suspsy

Prehistoric and primitive hominids are not rare in the animal toy market, but evolutionary sets of them are. The first, and probably the most popular, was called Evolution of Man, produced by Bullyland in 1999. The set featured Dryopithecus, Australopithecus, and four […]

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