#Neanderthals

Mainz University

@mainzuniversity.bsky.social

3 hours ago

The image shows a European pond turtle (Emys orbicularis) next to the foot of a European straight-tusked elephant (Palaeoloxodon antiquus). This is what the scenery might have looked like around 125,000 years ago. (ill./©: Nicole Viehofer / MONREPOS – LEIZA)

Neanderthals in Central Europe hunted pond turtles: Shells of captured reptiles may have been used as ladles 👉 press.uni-mainz.de/neanderthals-…

#Neanderthals #palaeontology #research

Radical Anthropology

@radicalanthro.c.im.ap.brid.gy

5 hours ago

Middle Paleolithic Bone Technology at the Abri Suard Site (Charente, France) - Journal of Paleolithic Archaeology Bone tools provide key insights into the technological behaviors of Palaeolithic human groups, as they exemplify the closely integrated relationship between subsistence practices and technological strategies. Far from being limited to the processing of animal carcasses for nutritional purposes, faunal remains were deliberately selected, modified, and incorporated into toolkits. This is particularly evident in retouchers and soft hammers, well-documented implements in Middle Paleolithic contexts that are often produced by recycling butchery by-products. The Abri Suard site (Charente, France) has provided evidence of ancient Neanderthals in western Europe, featuring evidence of bone tool technology, including at least 62 retouchers and 3 soft hammers from a total of 6,496 analyzed faunal remains. These tools, which represent approximately 1% of the analyzed assemblage, were mainly manufactured from reindeer and horse remains, the most abundant identified species at the site. Cut marks, notches, and other anthropogenic modifications observed on the bone blanks reflect a complex operational sequence in which consumption and tool production were closely intertwined. Most of these elements were used for retouching flint, the main raw material used for lithic tool production that was previously identified at the site. Furthermore, the identification of soft hammers on a rhinoceros bone is noteworthy as this taxon is rarely represented in European Paleolithic bone tool industries and its use likely reflects practical exploitation of available faunal resources. Moreover, one retoucher on a horse molar represents one of the earliest registered examples of such a tool. Overall, the Abri Suard assemblage offers a detailed record of bone technology in the Middle Paleolithic, documenting the taxa exploited, the skeletal elements selected, including uncommon elements such as those mentioned above.

Not to be outdone, some #bone tool tech from French #Neanderthals

link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s41982-0...

4Qua Of Orion [ General NobuNaga Version ]

@4quazulu.bsky.social

12 hours ago

Debunking Myths: Interbreeding Between Homo Sapiens and #Neanderthals .
theorionblogown.blogspot.com/2025/09/debu...

#mitu
#humanpotential #genesis #DNAमित्रों #isis

Slines

@slines202.bsky.social

1 day ago

Source: Ancient Origins Reconstructing the story of humanity's past. #Neanderthals

(me: I think what’s important here is to determine whether Neanderthals had souls. Or were they retrofitted millennia later?)

Oden

@oden-gjallarhornet.bsky.social

2 days ago

Neanderthals Used Ancient Gloop as Antibacterial Medicine, Study Suggests Relatives of modern humans may have created and used a sticky substance both as a glue and to treat their wounds, preempting modern medicine by as much as 200,000 years, a new study suggests.

#Neanderthals Used Ancient Gloop as Antibacterial Medicine, Study Suggests

www.sciencealert.com/neanderthals...

Oden

@oden-gjallarhornet.bsky.social

3 days ago

A New DNA Revelation Rewrites The History of The Neanderthals in Europe An international team of researchers has found that Neanderthals suffered a major population crash that started around 75,000 years ago.

A New #DNA Revelation Rewrites The History of The #Neanderthals in Europe

www.sciencealert.com/a-new-dna-re...

Dustcircle

@dustcircle.bsky.social

4 days ago

A New DNA Revelation Rewrites The History of The Neanderthals in Europe An international team of researchers has found that Neanderthals suffered a major population crash that started around 75,000 years ago.

A New #DNA Revelation Rewrites The History of The #Neanderthals in #Europe

www.sciencealert.com/a-new-dna-re...

Radical Anthropology

@radicalanthro.c.im.ap.brid.gy

6 days ago

Study Tracks Genetic Lineages of Europe’s Last Neanderthals TÜBINGEN, GERMANY—According to a Live Science report, a team of researchers including archaeogeneticist Cosimo Posth […] The post Study Tracks Genetic Lineages of Europe’s Last Neanderthals appeared first on Archaeology Magazine.

Report on loss of diversity in #mtDNA lineages of #Neanderthals around 65,000 years ago

archaeology.org/news/2026/03/30/study-tr...

🗽⚖️ Þe Wyrst Gēnēre 💔 The USA creates sick cowardly monsters

@patcat13.bsky.social

1 week ago

Are you a Neanderthal?  YouTube video by Erika Jordan

Yay! I am running on 55,000 year old software that can’t be manipulated. It’s positively Neanderthal!

😃

I make everyone uncomfortable and I’m a threat to the #dystopia

😬

#Neanderthals #manipulation #genes #mind #psychology

youtube.com/shorts/MM5rf...

Donna E

@edwardsdna.bsky.social

1 week ago

Did Neanderthals Use Birch Bark Tar as an Antibiotic to Treat Wounds and Infections? Scientists created samples of the black resin using three methods and tested their effectiveness against two common bacteria

Did Neanderthals Use Birch Bark Tar as an Antibiotic to Treat Wounds and Infections?: Scientists created samples of the black resin using three methods and tested their effectiveness against two common bacteria @SmithsonianMag #Neanderthals #BirchBarkTar #Antibiotics #AncientMedicine #WoundCare

💪🏼👫LouA🗽🚫👑

@libbirdie4-all.bsky.social

1 week ago

Many #HeteroMen are more likely to score high on social #dominance orientation and sexism, and in turn, these measures correlate with prejudice toward #gaymen.

#GayBashers #Neanderthals #PrimalBrain #GenderSupremacists #Mysogynists #FemaleSuppresion
#ToxicMasculinity

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@just-jorj.bsky.social

1 week ago

Scientists sequence the genome of a 110,000-year-old Neanderthal and discover that he lived in the same cave as another Neanderthal 10,000 years earlier An international team of researchers, led from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology and Yale University, has succeeded in sequencing the high-quality genome of a Neanderthal who live...

www.labrujulaverde.com/en/2026/03/s...
#Neanderthals

💪🏼👫LouA🗽🚫👑

@libbirdie4-all.bsky.social

1 week ago

Many #HeteroMen are more likely to score high on social #dominance orientation and sexism, and in turn, these measures correlate with prejudice toward #gaymen.

#GayBashers #Neanderthals #PrimalBrain #GenderSupremacists #Mysogynists #FemaleSuppresion
#ToxicMasculinity

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@just-jorj.bsky.social

1 week ago

A cave sealed in Gibraltar for 40,000 years is home to what could be the last place of residence of the Neanderthals A door sealed for 40,000 years. See inside the newly discovered Gibraltar cave chamber that was home to the last Neanderthals.

www.ecoticias.com/en/a-cave-se...
#Neanderthals

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@just-jorj.bsky.social

1 week ago

Neanderthals lived on the brink of extinction for 350,000 years, now scientists understand what happened Genome analysis reveals that Neanderthals lived on the brink of extinction for 350,000 years in small populations.

www.earth.com/news/neander...
This study provides the best explanation I have seen for why we lost the Neanderthals.
Imagine a world we shared with Neanderthals.
Are there any fantasy authors who explored this idea?
#Neanderthals

Steven Saus [he/him]

@stevensaus.faithcollapsing.com.ap.brid.gy

1 week ago

’Major disruption in Neanderthal history’: 65,000 years ago, all Neanderthals in Europe died out except for one lineage

’Major disruption in Neanderthal history’: 65,000 years ago, all Neanderthals in Europe died out except for one lineage

The last Neanderthals to survive in Europe came from a single lineage that survived the worst period of the ice age, ancient D […]

[Original post on faithcollapsing.com]

Steven Saus [he/him]

@stevensaus.faithcollapsing.com.ap.brid.gy

1 week ago

2 Neanderthals present at same Siberian cave 10,000 years apart were distant relatives, 110,000-year-old bone reveals

2 Neanderthals present at same Siberian cave 10,000 years apart were distant relatives, 110,000-year-old bone reveals

Researchers extracted DNA from a Neanderthal bone fragment found in Russia’s Denisova Cave, and the genome is shedding light on […]

[Original post on faithcollapsing.com]

Anthropology.net

@anthropology.net

1 week ago

The Lehringen Spear, Revisited New analysis of a 125,000-year-old Neanderthal site in Germany settles old doubts about elephant hunting and reveals a far more versatile predator than the record suggested

New zooarchaeological analysis of the 125,000-year-old Lehringen site confirms Neanderthals hunted a straight-tusked elephant with a wooden spear and butchered bear, beaver, and aurochs at the same lakeshore. #Neanderthals #Paleoanthropology #Zooarchaeology www.anthropology.net/p/the-lehrin...

Mnemosyne

@mnemosy.bsky.social

1 week ago

#Neanderthals

Dustcircle

@dustcircle.bsky.social

1 week ago

'Major disruption in Neanderthal history': 65,000 years ago, all Neanderthals in Europe died out except for one lineage The last Neanderthals to survive in Europe came from a single lineage that survived the worst period of the ice age, ancient DNA reveals.

'Major disruption in #Neanderthal #history': 65,000 years ago, all #Neanderthals in #Europe died out except for one lineage

www.livescience.com/archaeology/...

Seth Chagi (World of Paleoanthropology🏺)

@sethchagi.bsky.social

1 week ago

Landscapes of Imagination: Reframing Neanderthal Art and Symbolism YouTube video by World of Paleoanthropology

Did Neanderthals have "imagination"? 🦴🎨
Check out my APHELEIA 2026 presentation, "Landscapes of Imagination," where I explore the paleoecology behind Neanderthal symbolic behavior at sites like La Pasiega and Gorham's Cave.
Watch: youtu.be/GhkAiVt1eZY
#Paleoanthropology #Neanderthals #DeepHistory

Miss Kitty 🌈🌈🌈

@misskitty.art

1 week ago

They're FAR worse. #Neanderthals never did this or we wouldn't be here.

Anthropology.net

@anthropology.net

1 week ago

One Species, Barely Holding Together Two new genomic studies reveal Neanderthals as a patchwork of tiny, isolated populations — more genetically divided than any humans alive today

Two new genomic studies reveal Neanderthals as a patchwork of tiny, isolated groups — more genetically fractured than any living human populations. A single bottleneck nearly ended them 65,000 years ago. #Neanderthals #AncientDNA #HumanEvolution #Anthropology #Paleoanthropology

Gabriele Russo

@gabrieleru1.bsky.social

1 week ago

Faunal exploitation at the elephant hunting site of Lehringen, Germany, 125,000 years ago - Scientific Reports Scientific Reports - Faunal exploitation at the elephant hunting site of Lehringen, Germany, 125,000 years ago

🚨 #PaperAlert!
#Neanderthals were elephant gourmets, but also not picky eaters!
Our new study at Lehringen (~125 ka) shows evidence of elephant butchery associated with a wooden spear, alongside the exploitation of bears, beavers, and ungulates.
Flexible hunters with everything on the menu 🐘🍽️
🦣🏺🧪

Pure Science

@purescience.news

2 weeks ago

Neanderthals Faced a Genetic Crisis During the Ice Age, Setting the Stage for Their Extinction  #Science #Biology #Genetics #Neanderthals #Extinction

www.discovermagazine.com/neanderthals-faced-a-gen...

Tünde Nagy-Bántó

@tundenagybanto.federate.social.ap.brid.gy

2 weeks ago

What's also worth highlighting from the #Neanderthals extinction article: #evolution happens faster in smaller populations.

This was new and surprising information for me.

#biology #archeology

Tünde Nagy-Bántó

@tundenagybanto.federate.social.ap.brid.gy

2 weeks ago

RE: flipboard.com/@scimag/news-from-scienc...

Next time you hear about the imminent #DemographicCollapse and extinction of the human race because women don't have enough babies (ideology promoted not only by right-wing politicians […]

UVicAnthro

@uvicanthro.bsky.social

2 weeks ago

In February Dr. April Nowell was interviewed for a documentary about Neanderthals and we got a backstage pass

Stay tuned

@uvic.ca @uvicsocialsciences.bsky.social #anthropology #neanderthals

Bernd von Mallinckrodt 🦋

@vonmallinckrodt.bsky.social

2 weeks ago

Bernd von Mallinckrodt v @vonmallinck... • jetzt Wenn ein #System nur deshalb stabil ist, weil seine Umwelt stabil bleibt ... ist das dann echte Starke oder nur geliehene Stabilität? Die #Neandertaler zeigen ... Nicht #Chaos führt zum Kollaps, sondern #fehlendeAnpassungsfähigkeit ... genau dort setzt #CRTI an. U DER SPIEGEL Fast 35.000 Jahre früher ausgestorben Neandertaler überlebten nur, weil sie am Mittelmeer lebten. Und genau das wurde ihnen zum Verhängnis Zehntausende Jahre kämpften die Neandertaler gegen ihr Aussterben, am Ende vergeblich. Nun zeigt eine Studie, was sie wirklich zu Fall brachte. 24.03.2026, 14.58 Uhr🖖

If a #system is stable only because its environment remains stable …

is that true strength or borrowed stability?

#Neanderthals suggest: collapse is not driven by #chaos, but by #insufficientadaptability …

precisely what #CRTI aims to capture.🖖

Anthropology.net

@anthropology.net

2 weeks ago

One Lineage to Rule Them All: The Last Neanderthals Were Descended from a Single Refugium Population New DNA confirms Europe's last Neanderthals descended from a single population that survived the MIS 4 glacial in southwest France.

New mtDNA from 6 Neanderthal sites shows nearly all Late Neanderthals descended from one refugium population in SW France ~65,000 years ago — then collapsed again ~42,000 years ago. #Neanderthals #AncientDNA #Paleoanthropology www.anthropology.net/p/one-lineag...