Mastodawn

#Humans Had #Dogs Before They Had #Farming, Ancient #DNA Confirms
New research pushes the first genetic evidence of dogs back by 5,000 years and suggests that #huntergatherer groups may have acquired dogs from one another.
The studies provide the first definitive #genetic evidence that dogs existed during the #Paleolithic period, before humans developed #agriculture.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/25/science/paleontology-humans-dogs-dna.html
https://archive.ph/7SqWh

Humans Had Dogs Before They Had Farming, Ancient DNA Confirms

New research pushes the first genetic evidence of dogs back by 5,000 years and suggests that hunter-gatherer groups may have acquired dogs from one another.

The New York Times

Lisa J. Warner / Lisa Luv Apr 30

👩🏿‍🔬🌗🌐🧬🧫🧪🧲🔬🔭💁🏿‍♀️*They embraced for 12,000 years, and now DNA has revealed that this Paleolithic scene was even more moving and mysterious than it initially appeared👉

#Science #DNA #Paleolithic

They embraced for 12,000 years, and now DNA has revealed that this Paleolithic scene was even more moving and mysterious than it initially appeared
https://www.ecoticias.com/en/they-embraced-for-12000-years-and-now-dna-has-revealed-that-this-paleolithic-scene-was-even-more-moving-and-mysterious-than-it-initially-appeared/31437/

They embraced for 12,000 years, and now DNA has revealed that this Paleolithic scene was even more moving and mysterious than it initially appeared

DNA reveals a 12,000-year-old embrace in Italy was a mother and daughter, uncovering rare disease and Ice Age survival

ECOticias.com

MONREPOS Apr 29

🔥New paper out now🔥
in collaboration with a colleague from MONREPOS.
Congratulations!
#palaeolithic #leizarchaeology #paleomonrepos #archaeology #paleolithic #archeology
Read now 👇
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12520-026-02447-z

Examining indicators of hunter-gatherer mobility in arid environments: The example of the final Middle Paleolithic site of Besor 37 (Northern Negev, Israel) - Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences

Besor 37 is an open-air site in the northwestern Negev Desert (Israel). Excavations at the site in 2020 uncovered a rich, in situ Middle Paleolithic assemb

SpringerLink

Resolviendo la incógnita 🌐Apr 20

La escultura más antigua conocida del acto sexual son los amantes de Ain Sakhri, una figura natufiense (13000-9500 a.C.). 🏛️Museo Británico 📷BabelStone #paleolitico #paleolithic #sexo #sex

Anthropology.net Apr 10

New study finds that 200,000 years ago, as elephants and other megaherbivores vanished from the Levant, so did the handaxes and heavy stone tools used to process them. Prey size may have driven tool size all along. #Paleoanthropology #Acheulian #Paleolithic #Archaeology https://www.anthropology.net/p/when-the-giants-left-the-handaxes