Articles: Funeral Practices among Neanderthals

Increasingly our ancestor/cousin species, the Neanderthals, seem a lot like...us.  Read this article about growing evidence the Neanderthals buried their dead.

Article: Neanderthal Genome Shows Signs of Inbreeding

This article discusses a secondary finding from a new genetic research:  the genome of a Neanderthal woman shows signs of inbreeding.

Article and Chart: Interbreeding Among Hominid Species

This chart summarizes nicely the emerging complexity of interbreeding among hominids.

Article: A Touch from the Ancients

This story describes an Austrian stone axe with the imprint of an ancient Homo erectus.  There is something about finding a fingerprint or hand imprint that makes archaeology suddenly so personal to me.