Homo sapiens in EL PAÍS English

Juan Luis Arsuaga with a reproduction of a Neanderthal fossil from Kebara (Israel), at the Center for Human Evolution and Behavior in Madrid.

In his new book the paleoanthropologist and co-director of the Atapuerca Foundation describes the origin of the human body, which has determined what we are as a species

Andrea Serodio, a researcher at the University of Vigo, classifies bifaces from Melka Kunture.

Human evolution

How the first mass tool workshop in history functioned 1.2 million years ago

Silvia R. Pontevedra|Vigo|19 Apr 2023 - 02:13UTC

Researchers from the University of Vigo and the Complutense University of Madrid discover a stock of lithic tools in Ethiopia, revealing the ‘planning ability’ of Homo erectus

The top photo is of the perforated bone, where the animal skin was placed. It was then struck with a burin, just as shoemakers still do today. Below is the skin that was examined in recent analyses.

Human evolution

Humans were already sewing their clothes nearly 40,000 years ago

Miguel Ángel Criado|14 Apr 2023 - 15:34UTC

A carved bone found near Barcelona was used to sew animal skin tens of thousands of years ago, well before the arrival of the needle to Europe

José Manuel Fernández observes the ceiling of one of the rooms of the Malalmuerzo cave in Moclín (Granada).

paleontology

The Spanish cave where ‘Homo sapiens’ sat out 5,000 years of European glaciation

Javier Arroyo|Granada|03 Apr 2023 - 11:42UTC

The Malalmuerzo cave in Granada is estimated to have been home to up to 250 generations of early humans during the Last Glacial Maximum, which devastated Europe 19,000-25,000 years ago.

PREHISTORIC ART

The enigma of the Lascaux Bird Man: The erection that embodies the mysteries of prehistoric art

Guillermo Altares|30 Mar 2023 - 15:01UTC

A wall painting depicting a dead man alongside a bison and rhinoceros has intrigued researchers since it was discovered in 1940

Several hundred flint artifacts have been found in Grotte Madrin – a cave near Montélimar, in the south of France

Human evolution

54,000-year-old flints suggest ‘Homo sapiens’ were already shooting arrows when they made contact with Neanderthals

Miguel Ángel Criado|24 Feb 2023 - 12:12UTC

Hundreds of small stones found in a cave in southern France indicate that both species met millennia earlier than previously thought

Researchers analyzing skulls found at archeological sites in Pinilla del Valle, Madrid.

paleoanthropology

Animal skulls found in a Spanish cave may reveal Neanderthal rituals

Nuño Domínguez|20 Feb 2023 - 11:57UTC

Researchers found an unusual collection of bison, wild bull, deer and rhinoceros craniums near Madrid, and believe they likely served ceremonial purposes

Homo sapiens

Juan Luis Arsuaga: ‘The human mind is a permanent aberration’

How the first mass tool workshop in history functioned 1.2 million years ago

Humans were already sewing their clothes nearly 40,000 years ago

The Spanish cave where ‘Homo sapiens’ sat out 5,000 years of European glaciation

The enigma of the Lascaux Bird Man: The erection that embodies the mysteries of prehistoric art

54,000-year-old flints suggest ‘Homo sapiens’ were already shooting arrows when they made contact with Neanderthals

Animal skulls found in a Spanish cave may reveal Neanderthal rituals

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