4 weeks ago - The Upper Paleolithic (or Upper Palaeolithic) is the third and last subdivision of the Paleolithic or Old Stone Age. Very broadly, it dates to between 50,000 and 12,000 years ago (the beginning of the Holocene), according to some theories coinciding with the appearance of behavioral modernity ...

September 28, 2017 - The Palaeolithic ('Old Stone Age') makes up the earliest chunk of the Stone Age – the large swathe of time during which hominins used stone to make tools – and ranges from the first known tool use roughly...

The Upper Paleolithic period saw great changes in the world as Homo sapiens became the only hominid running around on our planet.

November 11, 2024 - Melvin Konner has said the challenge to the hypothesis is not greatly significant since the real challenges to human non-adaptation have occurred with the rise of ever-more refined foodstuffs in the last 300 years. A 2019 analysis of diets in the United States ranked consumption of a paleolithic ...

Why study Paleolithic technology? What can old stone tools, ancient fire pits, and painted cave walls tell us about our evolutionary past?

August 23, 1998 - The Stone Age was a prehistoric cultural stage, or level of human development, characterized by the creation and use of stone tools, the oldest known of which date to some 3.3 million years ago. The Stone Age is usually divided into three separate periods: Paleolithic, Mesolithic, and Neolithic.

November 14, 2016 - Cancer is widespread today, but it doesn't appear to have been in the ancient world. Why not?

Halted Progression of Soft Palate Cancer in a Patient Treated with the Paleolithic Ketogenic Diet Alone: A 20-months Follow-up Csaba Tóth, Zsófia Clemens Hungarian translation / A cikk magyar fordítása Abstract Introduction:

Research efforts in the area of palaeopathology have been seen as an avenue to improve our understanding of the pathogenesis of cancer. Answers to questions of whether dinosaurs had cancer, or if cancer plagued ancient civilizations, have captured ...

November 14, 2016 - Cancer is widespread today, but it doesn’t appear to have been in the ancient world. Why not?

This study summarizes data from 154 paleopathological studies documenting 272 archaeologically recovered individuals exhibiting skeletal or soft tissu…

The Western dietary pattern is associated with higher risk of colorectal neoplasms. Evolutionary discordance could explain this association. We investigated associations of scores for 2 proposed diet patterns, the “Paleolithic” and the ...

So, for example, Western European ... Upper Paleolithic-associated ‘anatomically modern humans,’ who very likely migrated in from farther south, were much more linearly built (Trinkaus 1981, Ruff 1994, Holliday 1997). Wide bodies and/or short limbs are not limited to Neandertals but rather are a general phenomenon of higher latitudes (colder climates), as evidenced by other recently described specimens from Great Britain, Spain, ...

August 28, 2024 - The Paleolithic Age is characterized by the use of knapped stone tools, although at the time humans also used wood and bone tools. Other organic commodities were adapted for use as tools, including leather and vegetable fibers; however, due to rapid decomposition, these have not survived to any great degree. About 50,000 years ...

The steppes and piedmont areas ... is a great possibility to discover buried sites of the Middle Paleolithic here. Upper Paleolithic sites have been actively studied in Kazakhstan. This line of endeavor has increasingly been on the upswing over the past 20 years...

January 20, 2022 - The earliest known case of cancer has been identified in the skeleton of a Siberian Bronze Age man.

July 28, 2016 - The earliest evidence of cancer in the human fossil record has been discovered in South Africa, say researchers.

The great tusks supported the roof, while the skulls and thighbones formed the walls of the tent. Several families could live inside, where three small hearths, little more than rings of stones, kept people warm during the winter. Around 50,000 years ago, a group of Paleolithic humans camped ...

June 24, 2019 - The Stone Age may not have been "The Flintstones," but there were definitely caveman qualities to it.

Cancer is often wrongly considered to be a modern disease in many popular medical venues. Cancers have been known to humanity since ancient times. In fact, its antiquity can be identified through the application of palaeopathological methodologies. ...