Historical data suggest hard knocks to human societies build long-term resilience Frequent disturbances to human societies boost the ability of populations to resist and recover from subsequent downturns, a Nature paper indicates. The study, which analyzes 30,000 years of human history, has implications for future population growth and resilience and for contemporary resilience-building initiatives.
https://phys.org/news/2024-05-....historical-hard-huma

Recreating the face of a 75,000-year-old female from a cave where Neanderthals buried their dead A new Netflix documentary has recreated the face of a 75,000-year-old female Neanderthal whose flattened skull was discovered and rebuilt from hundreds of bone fragments by a team of archaeologists and conservators led by the University of Cambridge.
https://phys.org/news/2024-05-....recreating-year-fema

Revised dating of the Liujiang skeleton renews understanding of human occupation of China The emergence of Homo sapiens in Eastern Asia has long been a subject of intense research interest, with the scarcity of well-preserved and dated human fossils posing significant challenges.
https://phys.org/news/2024-05-....dating-liujiang-skel

Scientists show that ancient village adapted to drought, rising seas Around 6,200 BCE, the climate changed. Global temperatures dropped, sea levels rose and the southern Levant, including modern-day Israel, the Palestinian territories, Jordan, Lebanon, southern Syria and the Sinai desert, entered a period of drought.
https://phys.org/news/2024-04-....scientists-ancient-v

Significant differences among nordic regions during the Bronze Age The Scandinavian Bronze Age—despite a unifying material culture—was complex with constantly changing networks involving both competitors and collaborators. In a new book by archaeologists from the University of Gothenburg and the University of Oslo, the Bronze Age in the north is explored through a broad spectrum of topics such as domestic and political economies, trade, warfare, alliance-building, and maritime technology.
https://phys.org/news/2024-04-....significant-differen