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Quickies Spanish researchers have concluded that a carpet or other comparable fur ornament (a tapestry?, a cape?) is why a late cave lio...

A week ago a new rock art site was revealed to exist right in the town of Lekeitio (Biscay). The art, estimated to be from some 14,000 year...

Quickies A neat curiosity from the Ice Age: Marcos García Díez & Manuel Vaquero, Looking at the Camp: Paleolithic Depiction of ...

I know I'm late for the party but better late than never, right? A recent study sequenced three hunter-gatherer genomes from Georgia a...

Jean Lohizun points me to this new study by the EHU-UPV paleogeneticist team, which reviews the ancient DNA evidence from the Cantabrian st...

The new law of coasts passed by the conservative Spanish government and allowing construction only 20 meters from the coast (it used to be ...

While not really a novelty, I bet that most readers have never heard of this (I had no idea myself admittedly). David Sánchez discusses thi...

That is what researchers claim in a new study: Stephan P. Ritz et al., Estimated strength of the Atlantic overturning circulation durin...

Illustration by Arturo Asensio Decorating Altamira Cave As I have briefly mentioned before David Sánchez has a most interesting serie...

First it was the whale bone spear point of Isturitz (Basque Country), then the isotope evidence of sea mammal based diet of a Magdalenian ...

Littorina littorea ( winkle , magurio, faocha ) Santimamiñe Cave, near Gernika, has one of the most complete archaeological records of...

Just a short heads up mostly for RSS-only readers to an important update/edit of one of today's entries: Ancient mitochondrial DNA...

This seems a very important paper because, if everything is correct, it is the first peer-reviewed publication to establish conclusively th...

Interesting and straight to the point: that can be said of this new paper. That and that a number of high profile geneticists have co-author...

And again a quick look to many things which have been showing up around the Net these last few days: Neanderthal society Bryan Hayden ...

Doe of Arenaza While it is always a pity that scientists allow modern artificial borders such as the one between French and Spanish state...