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Lethal plague outbreaks in Lake Baikal hunter-gatherers 5,500 years ago
Abstract Plague is among the most devastating diseases in human history1. However, early strains of the plague-causing bacterium Yersinia pestis lacked virulence factors that are required for the bubonic form until around 3,800 years ago2,3. Consequently, the morbidity and mortality of early plague strains remain unclear.
Investigating human paleodiet at Mesolithic Yuzhniy Oleniy Ostrov, Karelia using a multi-proxy stable isotope approach
Loading metrics Open Access Peer-reviewed Research Article Citation: Eckelmann RII, Arppe L, Schulting RJ, Ghosh S, Trubač J, Kuchařová A, et al. (2026) Investigating human paleodiet at Mesolithic Yuzhniy Oleniy Ostrov, Karelia using a multi-proxy stable isotope approach. PLoS One 21(1): e0338887.
‘The darker angels of our nature’: Early Bronze Age butchered human remains from Charterhouse Warren, Somerset, UK
Introduction While Steven Pinker's Reference Pinker2011 book The better angels of our nature reflects on a decline in violence over the course of human history (though not uncontroversially, e.g. Ferguson Reference Ferguson and Fry2013), the Early Bronze Age site of Charterhouse Warren, Somerset, reveals the darker side of human prehistory. Excavated in the 1970s, the site contains the remains of at least 37 men, women and children who were thrown down a 15m-deep natural shaft.
Rethinking the 10,000 year existential overlap of Neanderthals and modern humans
A girl goes nose-to-nose with a Neanderthal statue in Germany. Ancient DNA research is increasingly revealing the genetic links between modern humans and our extinct ancestors, including Neanderthals and the mysterious Denisovans. Credit: Neanderthal Museum The idea that two different human species, Homo sapiens (us) and Neanderthals, coexisted in Western Eurasia 50,000–40,000 years ago has long captured the imagination of academics and the public alike.
Infant, Name Once Known
Get weekly insights about our world through anthropology. A poet-anthropologist of the Chickasaw Nation honors infant remains historically used in teaching collections at the University of Illinois. “Infant, Name Once Known” is part of the collection Poems of Witness and Possibility: Inside Zones of Conflict. Read the introduction to the collection here.
What It’s Like to Grow Old on the Margins
✽ As we ate breakfast in her room at La Merced shelter, Anita (a pseudonym) described her plight and that of her fellow residents: “You know, Magdalena? We have come to die here. There is no possibility for a better life within these walls. It’s all death. We are trash, and nobody wants us.” Anita’s words hit me emotionally.
Living as Stateless Palestinians in Jordan
Walid has diabetes and lives in Jordan. Throughout his youth, the disease was manageable. He worked and took care of his 13 children without any problems. One day, however, his leg felt strange. He could sense something was wrong and worried he might get gangrene. Walid couldn’t afford health insurance, so he asked several of his sons to take him to a public hospital that offered subsidized care for the poor. When he got to the hospital, the doctors refused treatment.
Excavating the Coexistence of Neanderthals and Modern Humans
This article was originally published at The Conversation and has been republished under Creative Commons. ✽ THE IDEA THAT TWO different human species, Homo sapiens (us) and Neanderthals, coexisted in Western Eurasia 50,000–40,000 years ago has long captured the imagination of academics and the public alike.
How long did Neanderthals and modern humans co-exist in Europe? Evidence suggests it may have been at least 10,000 years Original
The idea that two different human species, Homo sapiens (us) and Neanderthals, co-existed in western Eurasia 50–40,000 years ago has long captured the imagination of academics and the public alike. It is therefore not surprising that this time period—the Middle-to-Upper Paleolithic transition—has been a focus of research for many archaeologists, physical anthropologists and, more recently, geneticists.
How long did Neanderthals and modern humans co-exist in Europe? Evidence is growing it may have been at least 10,000 years
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How long did Neanderthals and modern humans co-exist in Europe? Evidence is growing it may have been at least 10,000 years Original
The idea that two different human species, Homo sapiens (us) and Neanderthals, co-existed in western Eurasia 50–40,000 years ago has long captured the imagination of academics and the public alike. It is therefore not surprising that this time period – the Middle-to-Upper Palaeolithic transition – has been a focus of research for many archaeologists, physical anthropologists and, more recently, geneticists.
Detection of chromosomal aneuploidy in ancient genomes - Communications Biology
Abstract Ancient DNA is a valuable tool for investigating genetic and evolutionary history that can also provide detailed profiles of the lives of ancient individuals. In this study, we develop a generalised computational approach to detect aneuploidies (atypical autosomal and sex chromosome karyotypes) in the ancient genetic record and distinguish such karyotypes from contamination. We confirm that aneuploidies can be detected even in low-coverage genomes ( ~ 0.0001-fold), common in ancient DNA.
Yersinia pestis genomes reveal plague in Britain 4000 years ago - Nature Communications
Abstract Extinct lineages of Yersinia pestis, the causative agent of the plague, have been identified in several individuals from Eurasia between 5000 and 2500 years before present (BP). One of these, termed the ‘LNBA lineage’ (Late Neolithic and Bronze Age), has been suggested to have spread into Europe with human groups expanding from the Eurasian steppe.
A Story of Icelandic Skulls
“Prime harvest”—that’s how one early 20th-century explorer described his collection of Icelandic human skulls. But why did he “harvest” those skulls in the first place? And what should happen to them now more than a century after they were collected? This case of the Icelandic skulls reveals an interconnected story of eugenics, international law, and the limits of current repatriation efforts.
Author Correction: Palaeogenomics of Upper Palaeolithic to Neolithic European hunter-gatherers - Nature
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Author notes These authors contributed equally: Cosimo Posth, He Yu Authors and Affiliations Archaeo- and Palaeogenetics, Institute for Archaeological Sciences, Department of Geosciences, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany Cosimo Posth Senckenberg Centre for Human Evolution and Palaeoenvironment at the University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany Cosimo Posth, Dorothée G. Drucker, Hervé Bocherens, Christoph Wißing, Nicholas J.
By Cosimo Posth, He Yu, Hélène Rougier, Harald Ringbauer, Adam Rohrlach, Kathrin Nägele, Vanessa Villalba-Mouco, Rita Radzeviciute, Alexander Stoessel, Dorothée G. Drucker, Martina Lari, Alessandra Modi, Stefania Vai, Christiana L. Scheib, Mathieu Rué, Bruno Maureille, Eugenio Bortolini, Elisabetta Starnini, Luca Sineo, Géraldine Garcia, Marta Połtowicz-Bobak, Dariusz Bobak, Mona Le Luyer, Jacek Kabacinski, Natalia Berezina, Borja González-Rabanal, Luc Amkreutz, Hervé Bocherens, Rimantas Jankauskas, Nicholas J. Conard, Frederique Valentin, Katerina Harvati, Rick Schulting, Kristiina Mannermaa, Alexandra P. Buzhilova, David Caramelli, Eveline Altena, Wolfgang Haak
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The Mexican River Defenders Fighting for the San Pedro
✽ If you were to join the environmental group Vida en el Río San Pedro for a Saturday outing at their local river, you would not be fishing or rafting or having a picnic beneath the cottonwoods. Rather, you would likely be handed a pair of rubber gloves and a garbage bag and pointed in the direction of the nearest pile of trash.
Palaeogenomics of Upper Palaeolithic to Neolithic European hunter-gatherers - Nature
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Abstract Modern humans have populated Europe for more than 45,000 years1,2. Our knowledge of the genetic relatedness and structure of ancient hunter-gatherers is however limited, owing to the scarceness and poor molecular preservation of human remains from that period3. Here we analyse 356 ancient hunter-gatherer genomes, including new genomic data for 116 individuals from 14 countries in western and central Eurasia, spanning between 35,000 and 5,000 years ago.
By Cosimo Posth, He Yu, Hélène Rougier, Harald Ringbauer, Adam Rohrlach, Kathrin Nägele, Vanessa Villalba-Mouco, Rita Radzeviciute, Alexander Stoessel, Dorothée G. Drucker, Martina Lari, Alessandra Modi, Stefania Vai, Christiana L. Scheib, Mathieu Rué, Bruno Maureille, Eugenio Bortolini, Elisabetta Starnini, Luca Sineo, Géraldine Garcia, Marta Połtowicz-Bobak, Dariusz Bobak, Mona Le Luyer, Jacek Kabacinski, Natalia Berezina, Borja González-Rabanal, Luc Amkreutz, Hervé Bocherens, Rimantas Jankauskas, Nicholas J. Conard, Frederique Valentin, Katerina Harvati, Rick Schulting, Kristiina Mannermaa, Alexandra P. Buzhilova, David Caramelli, Eveline Altena, Wolfgang Haak
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What Chimpanzees Know About Giving Medicine
This article was originally published at The Conversation and has been republished under Creative Commons. ✽ The chimpanzees of the Rekambo community in Gabon, West Africa, never fail to surprise. For a start, they are known to kill and eat tortoises, which sets them apart from any other community of chimpanzees. Now they have been seen displaying another unique behavior—one which has never been seen before despite many years of painstaking research.
At the Heart of It All
✽ For its practitioners, archaeology can feel like it is unearthing events deep in the past … until it doesn’t. What is the experience of researchers who discover their life stories are tied to an archaeological site? Dr. Kisha Supernant and Lenora McQueen share their journeys to the unmarked graves of First Nations and Métis peoples and African American burial grounds, respectively, and how their connections to their ancestors transform their work.
Redrawing the Boundaries
✽ For many, archaeology means digging up historical artifacts from beneath the ground. But to some, that framework is also violent and colonialist. What would it mean to leave ancestors and belongings where they’re found? In this episode, Gabrielle Miller, a doctoral student studying African diaspora archaeology at the University of Tulsa shares a story about excavations on the island of St. Croix.
Radiocarbon dating from Yuzhniy Oleniy Ostrov cemetery reveals complex human responses to socio-ecological stress during the 8.2 ka cooling event - Nature Ecology & Evolution
Abstract Yuzhniy Oleniy Ostrov in Karelia, northwest Russia, is one of the largest Early Holocene cemeteries in northern Eurasia, with 177 burials recovered in excavations in the 1930s; originally, more than 400 graves may have been present. A new radiocarbon dating programme, taking into account a correction for freshwater reservoir effects, suggests that the main use of the cemetery spanned only some 100–300 years, centring on ca. 8250 to 8000 cal bp.
Consumer Culture Won't Lead to Body Positivity
✽ I have an 8-year-old daughter. From time to time, I catch her staring at her reflection in various shiny household surfaces, turning to the side, admiring her waist, and smoothing her hair.
What a Shipwreck’s Tree Rings Reveal
This article was originally published at The Conversation and has been republished under Creative Commons. ✽ The wrecking of the Dutch East India Company ship Batavia in 1629 is perhaps the best-known maritime disaster in Australian history. The subject of books, articles, plays, and even an opera, Batavia was wrecked on a chain of small islands off the coast of Western Australia.
Make a desert and call it peace: massacre at the Iberian Iron Age village of La Hoya
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Can the Holy Spirit Be Livestreamed?
✽ Every Sunday, during her fieldwork, Cristina (one of the co-authors of this piece) would join hundreds of congregants under one roof as they connected with God and their fellow Christians. Time spent in church was emotionally intense, at times viscerally overwhelming, and always accompanied by the loud sounds of Christian music—heavy on the drums and spirit-filled singing.
El superfertilizante natural que le permitió a una civilización preincaica prosperar en el árido desierto de Atacama en Chile
Atacama es el lugar más seco de la tierra, exceptuando algunos valles antárticos. El desierto de Atacama, en el norte de Chile, es uno de los lugares más secos del planeta; durante años no recibe lluvia alguna. Para que las comunidades agrícolas sobrevivan y prosperen, necesitarían agua y nutrientes del suelo, ambos escasos. Sin embargo, la gente vivía en Atacama mucho antes de que existiera la tecnología moderna. La escasez de agua se abordó utilizando agua de oasis y complejos sistemas de riego.
How a pre-Incan civilisation thrived in the Atacama Desert thanks to seabird poo fertiliser
The Atacama Desert of northern Chile is one of the driest places on the planet – in many years it receives no rain whatsoever. For farming communities to survive and thrive they would need water and soil nutrients, both in short supply. Yet people did live in the Atacama, long before modern technology. The water shortage was addressed using water from oases and complex irrigation systems.
‘White gold’ guano fertilizer drove agricultural intensification in the Atacama Desert from ad 1000
Abstract The archaeological record shows that large pre-Inca agricultural systems supported settlements for centuries around the ravines and oases of northern Chile’s hyperarid Atacama Desert. This raises questions about how such productivity was achieved and sustained, and its social implications. Using isotopic data of well-preserved ancient plant remains from Atacama sites, we show a dramatic increase in crop nitrogen isotope values (δ15N) from around ad 1000.
Make a desert and call it peace: massacre at the Iberian Iron Age village of La Hoya
Alfsdotter, C., Papmehl-Dufay, L. & Victor, H.. 2018. A moment frozen in time: evidence of a late fifth-century massacre at Sandby borg. Antiquity 92: 421–36. https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2018.21 Armit, I., Schulting, R.J., Knüsel, C. & Shepherd, I.A.G.. 2011. Death, decapitation and display? The Bronze and Iron Age human remains from the Sculptor's Cave, Covesea, north-east Scotland. Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society 77: 251–78. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0079497X00000694 Berggren, J.L. & Jones, A..
Combating Anti-Black Racism in Brazil and Beyond
Get weekly insights about our world through anthropology. An interview with anthropologist Christen A. Smith provides insights into resisting police violence and creating safe societies for people of African descent.
mass graves - News, Research and Analysis - The Conversation - page 1
Articles Contributors Links Displaying all articles Workers wearing personal protective equipment bury bodies in a trench on Hart Island in New York. John Minchillo/AP Photo April 24, 2020 From burial sites targeted by grave robbers to disposing of ashes at sea, the job of disposing of the unclaimed dead has a rich history. Sadly, it still goes on today and is on the rise.
How Did Belief Evolve?
✽ About 20 years ago, the residents of Padangtegal village in Bali, Indonesia, had a problem. The famous, monkey-filled forest surrounding the local Hindu temple complex had become stunted, and saplings failed to sprout and thrive. Since I was conducting fieldwork in the area, the head of the village council, Pak Acin, asked me and my team to investigate.
How Hearts Align in a Muslim Ritual
✽ In downtown Istanbul, Turks in religious garb filter into a large, multistory building. Behind the nondescript facade lies a majestic interior, where a group of about 500 men sway their heads back and forth while uttering rough, guttural chants that sound like the grating of a saw against wood. Some enter an ecstatic state of trance. One man shouts “Allah!” in a fit of spiritual fervor, his forceful movements causing his spectacles to be thrown from his face.
Integrating the Old World into the New: an ‘Idol from the West Indies’
Anonymous. 2008. Horns of plenty. The Economist, 17 May 2008. Available at: http://www.economist.com/node/11394575 (accessed 12 June 2017). Biscione, M. 1991. Lo Zemi del Museo Pigorini: problemi di interpretazione. L'Universo supplemento 1: 77–84. Biscione, M. 1997. Epilogue: the beaded zemi in the Pigorini Museum: history and problems of interpretation, in Brecht, F., Brodsky, E., Farmer, J.A. & Taylor, D. (ed.) Taíno: pre-Columbian art and culture from the Caribbean: 158–63. New York: Monacelli.
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How Volcanoes Destroy and Nurture Societies
✽ The explosion must have been deafening. Clouds of black and gray likely erased the horizon as the earth and sky thundered violently. As smoldering debris rained down on the Ecuadorian coast, having been ejected from a volcano far to the east, the Jama-Coaque I peoples salvaged what they could of their corn, chilies, and beans. Within hours, ash choked off the river that had swept down from the high Andean mountains, watering their fields for generations.
Living different lives: Early social differentiation identified through linking mortuary and isotopic variability in Late Neolithic/ Early Chalcolithic north-central Spain
Variation in burial location and treatment is often observed in the prehistoric archaeological record, but its interpretation is usually highly ambiguous. Biomolecular approaches provide the means of addressing this variability in a way not previously possible, linking the lives of individuals to their funerary treatment.
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Primate Vocalizations Are Much More Than Gibberish
✽ A chimpanzee is strolling along a trail through the lush Budongo Forest in Uganda when he spots a deadly Gaboon viper. Chimps have an alarm call for scenarios like these: a soft “hoo” grunt that alerts others to potential danger. But there’s no point in alerting his group mates if they’re already aware of the threat. So what does he do? This is the question that Catherine Crockford, a primatologist at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, and her colleagues were keen to answer.
In a Genocide, Who Are the Morally Upright?
Get weekly insights about our world through anthropology. A Georgia State anthropologist explores what motivated rescuers during the Rwandan genocide—and what their stories reveal about courage and selflessness in the midst of total destruction. ✽ On April 21, 1994, Felicite Niyitegeka took in a sight many Rwandans had come to dread: a line of minibuses pulling up to her door.
New Study: 60 Percent of Primate Species Threatened With Extinction
This article was originally published at The Conversation and has been republished under a Creative Commons license. ✽ Primates are remarkable. We’re all familiar with chimpanzees, monkeys, and ring-tailed lemurs, but have you heard of tarsiers, with their big eyes? Or Cleese’s woolly lemur, named after John Cleese? Or the fabulous red-shanked douc? What about the scary-looking red-headed bald uakari? Or did you know that primates can be as small as mice?
Why Dwarfism?
✽ In the immortal words of Lennon and McCartney, “I read the news today, oh boy.” By now, you have probably read the news, too, about the discovery of specimens of an extinct, tiny human relative that lived approximately 700,000 years ago on the island of Flores in Indonesia. If not, you can read about it in this SAPIENS article.
Anorexia and the Pursuit of Perfection
✽ When I was between the ages of 17 and 20, I could only eat lunch at 1 p.m.; it seemed the world would end if I didn’t. I waited for the exact hour and minute to prepare and eat each meal, regardless of whether my hunger pangs had set in hours before. So when the clock chimed 12:45, my ears would perk up like a hound dog’s on a hunt. Then I would tiptoe downstairs, doing everything possible to avoid attracting attention, and prepare my lunch.
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