The Nobel Prize in Physics Steven Weinberg said that "With or without religion, good people will do good and bad people will do evil, but for good people to do evil, religion is needed." However, while he is partly right, it is also true that religions have produced both positive and negative effects. Another thing … Read more
With its ups and downs, in two thousand years we have gone from being 170 million human beings to 7,500 million, and by the year 2100, if we continue at this rate, we will already reach the figure of 11,000 million human beings . The point is that we are growing at the same speed … Read more
The Roman soldiers who guarded the Via Salaria route received part of their payment in salt. This part was called "salarium argentum" (added salt). That’s where the word "salary" comes from . However, salt was not the first thing that was used to pay a salary or salary. The first thing was beer . Brewery … Read more
Scientists from the University of Versailles in Sant Quentin en Yvelines conducted a direct anthropological and medical examination, carried out a micro-CT scan , of the ‘Cro-Magnon 1’ skull, the ‘first’ Cro-Magnon man, whose remains date back to 27,680 years and were discovered 150 years ago in the Cave of Eyzies (France). His face has … Read more
The Bora people of the Northwest Amazon, an indigenous group of about 1,500 members who reside in small communities in the Amazon rainforest of Colombia and Peru, not only reproduce the melody of words and sentences in this endangered language, but also their rhythm . In this way, their language not only has a rhythm, … Read more
Remnants of what may be the oldest bread ever baked have been discovered in a Middle Eastern desert. 14,400-year-old charred crumbs found in Jordan show that bread making predated agriculture by at least 4,000 years . Previously, the oldest evidence of bread making came from a 9,000-year-old Neolithic site at Catalhoyuk in Turkey. Invention of … Read more
In a cave in the Borneo jungle, a group of researchers have found the oldest figurative painting in the world . The cave drawing in Borneo, depicting an animal, is at least 40,000 years old , raising intriguing questions about creativity in ancient societies. Figurative art Until now, the oldest known human-made figures were ivory … Read more
While the maximum height a person reaches is largely influenced by genes, actual height is strongly restricted by the environment: malnutrition, disease, or other physiological pressures prevent a person from growing as tall as they should. For that reason, and looking at height, we can affirm that the birth of agriculture did not mean a … Read more
During a work of urbanization, the remains of what would be a great city of 650,000 square meters have been discovered that came to house 6,000 inhabitants 5,000 years ago, that is, in the Bronze Age. The remains have emerged in Harish, north of Tel Aviv, Israel. We are, therefore, before the largest Bronze Age … Read more
According to a new study published in the journal Nature Communications , the main reason we are the only human group left on the planet is probably because we spread diseases that killed the rest, such as Neanderthals . Using mathematical models of disease transmission and gene flow, it suggests how the unique diseases harbored … Read more
New Horizons launched in January 2006; It then went to Jupiter to drive gravity and scientific studies in February 2007 and made a historic first flight through the Pluto system on July 14, 2015. Finally, it ran into "Ultima Thule", 1,500 million kilometers beyond Pluto, and the farthest flyby ever made. That was his temporary … Read more
The find of what appears to be the world’s oldest illustrated ‘book’, more than 4,000 years old , underscores the dedication and sophistication with which the Egyptians approached the enigma of their own mortality. Because the book is a guide to the underworld. The Book of Two Paths At least there were two roads to … Read more
Using CT scans, 3D printing and an electronic larynx, researchers from the University of London and the University of York have succeeded in synthesizing the sound produced by the vocal tract of a 3,000-year-old Egyptian mummy . However, it is a sound that does not provide the basis for synthesizing speech, as detailed in the … Read more
The oldest wooden structure that has survived to this day has been located in a Neolithic pit, discovered during the works of a road in the Czech Republic (a highway in the East Bohemian region, near the town of Ostrov) . Archaeologists excavated a wooden water well structure with a square base area of 80 … Read more
Dating back 13,000 years, a miniature bird figurine carved from burned bone has become the oldest known three-dimensional Chinese and East Asian work of art . These works are the first examples of prehistoric humans representing the world around them in three dimensions. Singing bird The figure is shaped like a songbird on a pedestal. … Read more
I think that, I think that, this is so, this is so, I am right, my ideology is … all these are common places not only in any bar conversation, but in debates. Yet accumulated evidence, data, statistics, peer-reviewed studies are rarely discussed. Or even the inductive / deductive process through which we have reached … Read more
Even though we’ve all taken it for granted that Willendorf’s venus symbolizes fertility, a new interpretation suggests that we’re actually seeing something else. The venus of Willedorf, and other venus, would be a sign of fear or hope of hunter-gatherers due to the sudden drop in temperatures and the lack of food associated with them. … Read more
Evidenced by a growth in brain volume, our superior cognitive abilities were developed because we hunted and extinguished megafauna , according to a new study from Tel Aviv University. This would occur about two million years ago, until the arrival of agriculture, about 10,000 years ago. The reason: we had to develop our brains to … Read more
According to a research team led by the Senckenberg Center for Human Evolution and the Paleoenvironment at the University of Tübingen, the transition from wild wolves to domesticated dogs in Europe may have occurred in southwestern Germany between 16,000 and 14,000 years ago . Therefore, the team of researchers assume that Magdalenian humans domesticated and … Read more
There are common traits in all the cultures of the world, because they have a biological rather than an environmental substrate, or perhaps it is an inextricable mixture of both. Thus, despite the fact that anthropologists usually tell us stories of tribes that are very different from ours, in reality these differences are not usually … Read more
According to a new study carried out by researchers led by University College London, primate mothers carry dead babies as an expression of mourning for a long time, even periods of months. For the study, data was collected from anecdotes reported in 126 publications on the behavior of primates, in what has become the largest … Read more
They are six million years old and constitute the oldest direct standing evidence of a human ancestor used for walking, that is, these pre-human footprints are almost 2.5 million years older than the footprints attributed to Australopithecus afarensis (Lucy) of Laetoli in Tanzania. This is what a recent study published in the journal Scientific Reports … Read more