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🗿 NEW: Comic artist @Ullilust spent years reading #iceage #archaeology before #drawing it.
Her "Early Man Was a Woman," the first comic to win #Germany’s top #nonfiction prize, argues the #StoneAge was more egalitarian than the familiar male-hunter image. #Paleolithic #art favors female figures, she notes, yet male researcher bias long dismissed them.
👉 https://www.science.org/content/article/comic-drawing-women-prehistory
#prehistory #comics #history #venus #arthistory #feminism #graphicnovel #science #gender #caveart
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🗿 NEW: Comic artist @Ullilust spent years reading #iceage #archaeology before #drawing it.
Her "Early Man Was a Woman," the first comic to win #Germany’s top #nonfiction prize, argues the #StoneAge was more egalitarian than the familiar male-hunter image. #Paleolithic #art favors female figures, she notes, yet male researcher bias long dismissed them.
👉 https://www.science.org/content/article/comic-drawing-women-prehistory
#prehistory #comics #history #venus #arthistory #feminism #graphicnovel #science #gender #caveart
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🗿 NEW: Comic artist @Ullilust spent years reading #iceage #archaeology before #drawing it.
Her "Early Man Was a Woman," the first comic to win #Germany’s top #nonfiction prize, argues the #StoneAge was more egalitarian than the familiar male-hunter image. #Paleolithic #art favors female figures, she notes, yet male researcher bias long dismissed them.
👉 https://www.science.org/content/article/comic-drawing-women-prehistory
#prehistory #comics #history #venus #arthistory #feminism #graphicnovel #science #gender #caveart
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🗿 NEW: Comic artist @Ullilust spent years reading #iceage #archaeology before #drawing it.
Her "Early Man Was a Woman," the first comic to win #Germany’s top #nonfiction prize, argues the #StoneAge was more egalitarian than the familiar male-hunter image. #Paleolithic #art favors female figures, she notes, yet male researcher bias long dismissed them.
👉 https://www.science.org/content/article/comic-drawing-women-prehistory
#prehistory #comics #history #venus #arthistory #feminism #graphicnovel #science #gender #caveart
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Gene That Differs Between Humans and Neanderthals Could Shed Light On The Species Disappearance Mouse Study Suggests
Allan Henderson (CC BY 2.0) A gene called ASDL, which helps synthesize DNA, differs between modern humans and our extinct human relatives. The findings could shed light on why Neanderthals vanished. A protein that helps synthesize DNA is different in modern humans than it is in Neanderthals and Denisovans our closest extinct relatives and new experiments in mice genetically modified to express the modern human version hint that this may have made us behave differently…….Continue […] -
Sur la Chaîne Canal U de la Société préhistorique française, les enregistrements par la Radiodiffusion française des discours de *Henri Breuil* tenus lors de l'assemblée pour le Cinquantenaire de la Société préhistorique française, au Musée de l'Homme (Paris).
https://www.canal-u.tv/chaines/spf/cinquantenaire-de-la-societe-seance-du-15-novembre-1954
#Préhistoire
#HistoireDeLaPréhistoire
#cinquantenaire
#conférence
#Prehistory
#HistoryOfPrehistory
#50thAnniversary
#lecture
#1954Merci @spf !
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As Britain enters its fifth heatwave this year, here is an illustration called 'Bronze Age Sun Worship' by Adolf Lehmann, 1920.
#BronzeAge #prehistory #ritual #pagan #heatwave -
Stonehenge, au coucher du soleil.
Version entièrement gratuite, puisqu'il y a un sentier, une route historique anglaise, qui longe le site, et avec sa tente ou son véhicule, on peut se garer sur la piste qui mène à cette petite route. On est juste à 10m plus loin que ceux qui paient le tarif grand public (ou ceux qui paient le tarif VIP pour aller au milieu des pierres, encore un autre débat, ça).
Mais bref, une manière simple et économique de profiter du site car non limité dans le temps.#Stonehenge #Travel #Voyage #England #UnitedKingdom #Prehistory #Préhistoire #Stones #OldStones
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Dans les bons plans gratuits en Écosse, on peut visiter beaucoup de vestiges de la préhistoire, dont ce cercle de pierres aka le Temple Wood Circle Stone, qui a servi sur au moins un millénaire (bien que pour différents usages et on ne les connaît pas tous. Il reste encore 13 pierres sur les 22 ou 23 d'origine, pas mal !
#Ecosse #Écosse #Scotland #Roadtrip #Travel #Voyage #prehistoire #prehistory #prehistoric #CercledePierres
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Everyone links boomerangs to Australia. But the oldest known example was discovered in Europe, carved from mammoth ivory nearly 40,000 years ago.
#Boomerang #AncientHistory #HistoricMysteries #Archaeology #Prehistory #AncientHumans #LostHistory
Read more:https://www.ancient-origins.net/artifacts-other-artifacts/40000-year-old-worlds-oldest-boomerang-00102947 -
Archaeoethnologica: Estudos Arqueológicos de Oeiras Nº 37 - 2026
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#Archaeology #Prehistory #Eneolithic #Bellbeaker #settlement #megasite #symbolism #MaterialCulture #Iberia #Portugal #archaeologicaltheory #journal #openaccess
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Archaeoethnologica: Estudos Arqueológicos de Oeiras Nº 37 - 2026
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#Archaeology #Prehistory #Eneolithic #Bellbeaker #settlement #megasite #symbolism #MaterialCulture #Iberia #Portugal #archaeologicaltheory #journal #openaccess
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Archaeoethnologica: Estudos Arqueológicos de Oeiras Nº 37 - 2026
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#Archaeology #Prehistory #Eneolithic #Bellbeaker #settlement #megasite #symbolism #MaterialCulture #Iberia #Portugal #archaeologicaltheory #journal #openaccess
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Archaeoethnologica: Estudos Arqueológicos de Oeiras Nº 37 - 2026
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#Archaeology #Prehistory #Eneolithic #Bellbeaker #settlement #megasite #symbolism #MaterialCulture #Iberia #Portugal #archaeologicaltheory #journal #openaccess
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Archaeoethnologica: Estudos Arqueológicos de Oeiras Nº 37 - 2026
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#Archaeology #Prehistory #Eneolithic #Bellbeaker #settlement #megasite #symbolism #MaterialCulture #Iberia #Portugal #archaeologicaltheory #journal #openaccess
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Archaeoethnologica: Estudos Arqueológicos de Oeiras Nº 37 - 2026
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#Archaeology #Prehistory #Eneolithic #Bellbeaker #settlement #megasite #symbolism #MaterialCulture #Iberia #Portugal #archaeologicaltheory #journal #openaccess
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Archaeoethnologica: Estudos Arqueológicos de Oeiras Nº 37 - 2026
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#Archaeology #Prehistory #Eneolithic #Bellbeaker #settlement #megasite #symbolism #MaterialCulture #Iberia #Portugal #archaeologicaltheory #journal #openaccess
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Archaeoethnologica: Estudos Arqueológicos de Oeiras Nº 37 - 2026
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#Archaeology #Prehistory #Eneolithic #Bellbeaker #settlement #megasite #symbolism #MaterialCulture #Iberia #Portugal #archaeologicaltheory #journal #openaccess
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Archaeoethnologica: Estudos Arqueológicos de Oeiras Nº 37 - 2026
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#Archaeology #Prehistory #Eneolithic #Bellbeaker #settlement #megasite #symbolism #MaterialCulture #Iberia #Portugal #archaeologicaltheory #journal #openaccess
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Archaeoethnologica: Estudos Arqueológicos de Oeiras Nº 37 - 2026
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#Archaeology #Prehistory #Eneolithic #Bellbeaker #settlement #megasite #symbolism #MaterialCulture #Iberia #Portugal #archaeologicaltheory #journal #openaccess
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Archaeoethnologica: Estudos Arqueológicos de Oeiras Nº 37 - 2026
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#Archaeology #Prehistory #Eneolithic #Bellbeaker #settlement #megasite #symbolism #MaterialCulture #Iberia #Portugal #archaeologicaltheory #journal #openaccess
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Archaeoethnologica: Estudos Arqueológicos de Oeiras Nº 37 - 2026
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#Archaeology #Prehistory #Eneolithic #Bellbeaker #settlement #megasite #symbolism #MaterialCulture #Iberia #Portugal #archaeologicaltheory #journal #openaccess
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Archaeoethnologica: Estudos Arqueológicos de Oeiras Nº 37 - 2026
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#Archaeology #Prehistory #Eneolithic #Bellbeaker #settlement #megasite #symbolism #MaterialCulture #Iberia #Portugal #archaeologicaltheory #journal #openaccess
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Archaeoethnologica: Estudos Arqueológicos de Oeiras Nº 37 - 2026
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#Archaeology #Prehistory #Eneolithic #Bellbeaker #settlement #megasite #symbolism #MaterialCulture #Iberia #Portugal #archaeologicaltheory #journal #openaccess
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Archaeoethnologica: Estudos Arqueológicos de Oeiras Nº 37 - 2026
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#Archaeology #Prehistory #Eneolithic #Bellbeaker #settlement #megasite #symbolism #MaterialCulture #Iberia #Portugal #archaeologicaltheory #journal #openaccess
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Archaeoethnologica: Estudos Arqueológicos de Oeiras Nº 37 - 2026
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#Archaeology #Prehistory #Eneolithic #Bellbeaker #settlement #megasite #symbolism #MaterialCulture #Iberia #Portugal #archaeologicaltheory #journal #openaccess
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Archaeoethnologica: Estudos Arqueológicos de Oeiras Nº 37 - 2026
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#Archaeology #Prehistory #Eneolithic #Bellbeaker #settlement #megasite #symbolism #MaterialCulture #Iberia #Portugal #archaeologicaltheory #journal #openaccess
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Archaeoethnologica: Estudos Arqueológicos de Oeiras Nº 37 - 2026
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#Archaeology #Prehistory #Eneolithic #Bellbeaker #settlement #megasite #symbolism #MaterialCulture #Iberia #Portugal #archaeologicaltheory #journal #openaccess
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Archaeoethnologica: Estudos Arqueológicos de Oeiras Nº 37 - 2026
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#Archaeology #Prehistory #Eneolithic #Bellbeaker #settlement #megasite #symbolism #MaterialCulture #Iberia #Portugal #archaeologicaltheory #journal #openaccess
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Archaeoethnologica: Estudos Arqueológicos de Oeiras Nº 37 - 2026
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#Archaeology #Prehistory #Eneolithic #Bellbeaker #settlement #megasite #symbolism #MaterialCulture #Iberia #Portugal #archaeologicaltheory #journal #openaccess
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Archaeoethnologica: Estudos Arqueológicos de Oeiras Nº 37 - 2026
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#Archaeology #Prehistory #Eneolithic #Bellbeaker #settlement #megasite #symbolism #MaterialCulture #Iberia #Portugal #archaeologicaltheory #journal #openaccess
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Archaeoethnologica: Estudos Arqueológicos de Oeiras Nº 37 - 2026
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#Archaeology #Prehistory #Eneolithic #Bellbeaker #settlement #megasite #symbolism #MaterialCulture #Iberia #Portugal #archaeologicaltheory #journal #openaccess
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Archaeoethnologica: Estudos Arqueológicos de Oeiras Nº 37 - 2026
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#Archaeology #Prehistory #Eneolithic #Bellbeaker #settlement #megasite #symbolism #MaterialCulture #Iberia #Portugal #archaeologicaltheory #journal #openaccess
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Archaeoethnologica: Estudos Arqueológicos de Oeiras Nº 37 - 2026
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#Archaeology #Prehistory #Eneolithic #Bellbeaker #settlement #megasite #symbolism #MaterialCulture #Iberia #Portugal #archaeologicaltheory #journal #openaccess
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Archaeoethnologica: Estudos Arqueológicos de Oeiras Nº 37 - 2026
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#Archaeology #Prehistory #Eneolithic #Bellbeaker #settlement #megasite #symbolism #MaterialCulture #Iberia #Portugal #archaeologicaltheory #journal #openaccess
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Archaeoethnologica: Estudos Arqueológicos de Oeiras Nº 37 - 2026
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#Archaeology #Prehistory #Eneolithic #Bellbeaker #settlement #megasite #symbolism #MaterialCulture #Iberia #Portugal #archaeologicaltheory #journal #openaccess
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Archaeoethnologica: Estudos Arqueológicos de Oeiras Nº 37 - 2026
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#Archaeology #Prehistory #Eneolithic #Bellbeaker #settlement #megasite #symbolism #MaterialCulture #Iberia #Portugal #archaeologicaltheory #journal #openaccess
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Archaeoethnologica: Estudos Arqueológicos de Oeiras Nº 37 - 2026
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#Archaeology #Prehistory #Eneolithic #Bellbeaker #settlement #megasite #symbolism #MaterialCulture #Iberia #Portugal #archaeologicaltheory #journal #openaccess
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Archaeoethnologica: Estudos Arqueológicos de Oeiras Nº 37 - 2026
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#Archaeology #Prehistory #Eneolithic #Bellbeaker #settlement #megasite #symbolism #MaterialCulture #Iberia #Portugal #archaeologicaltheory #journal #openaccess
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Archaeoethnologica: Estudos Arqueológicos de Oeiras Nº 37 - 2026
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#Archaeology #Prehistory #Eneolithic #Bellbeaker #settlement #megasite #symbolism #MaterialCulture #Iberia #Portugal #archaeologicaltheory #journal #openaccess
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They didn’t bathe, seriously?
By Cliff Potts, CSO, and Editor-in-Chief of WPS News
Baybay City, Leyte, Philippines — June 24, 2026
Modern portrayals of early humans tend to follow a familiar pattern: dirty faces, tangled hair, and a general look of permanent neglect. It is a visual shorthand used across documentaries, films, and illustrations. The assumption is simple—if they lived before modern sanitation, they must have been unclean. That assumption is convenient. It is also likely incomplete.
Early humans lived in close proximity to water sources. Archaeological and anthropological evidence consistently shows that settlements formed near rivers, lakes, and coastal environments. Water was not only essential for survival but central to daily activity. This raises a basic question: if water was readily available, why assume it was only used for drinking?
There is no direct written record describing hygiene practices from 20,000 years ago. However, indirect evidence suggests that early humans were not indifferent to cleanliness. Stone tools used for scraping hides indicate an understanding of material preparation and maintenance. The same cognitive processes that led to tool refinement likely extended to personal care. Grooming is not a modern invention—it is observed across many animal species as a basic behavioral trait.
Comparative anthropology offers additional insight. Contemporary and historically recent hunter-gatherer societies—often used as reference points—frequently incorporate bathing into daily routines when water is available. In tropical and temperate climates alike, washing in rivers or streams is common practice. There is no clear reason to assume that earlier humans, facing similar environmental conditions, would behave differently.
The argument that early humans were “too busy surviving” to maintain hygiene overlooks how survival actually works. Activities such as foraging, tool-making, and social interaction were not continuous states of emergency. Periods of rest and recovery were built into daily life. Water sources, in particular, would have served as natural gathering points—places not only for drinking but for cooling off, cleaning, and social interaction.
There is also a physiological dimension. Removing dirt, parasites, and irritants from the skin has clear health benefits. Even without modern knowledge of bacteria, early humans would have recognized the relief associated with washing. Behavioral reinforcement—feeling better after cleaning—does not require scientific explanation to become habitual.
The persistent image of the perpetually dirty early human may say more about modern assumptions than about prehistoric reality. It reflects a tendency to equate technological simplicity with personal neglect. In doing so, it overlooks the adaptability and observational intelligence that defined early human survival.
We do not have direct evidence that early humans bathed regularly. We also do not have evidence that they avoided it. What we do have is a consistent pattern: humans, across time and environment, use available resources in ways that improve comfort and health. Water was available. The rest follows logically.
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The Druids have aligned their #megaliths for the #Solstice, now we hoist tankards in the taverns. https://cromwell-intl.com/travel/france/paris-megaliths/?s=mc #travel #prehistory
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The Druids were up at dawn aligning their #megaliths. Now 'tis the time for feasting! https://cromwell-intl.com/travel/france/giverny-dolmen/?s=mc #Solstice #travel #prehistory
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The Druids were up at dawn aligning their #megaliths. Now 'tis the time for feasting! https://cromwell-intl.com/travel/france/provence-megaliths?s=mc #Solstice #travel #prehistory
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The Druids have aligned their #megaliths for the #Solstice, now we hoist tankards in the taverns. https://cromwell-intl.com/travel/france/saumur-megaliths/?s=mc #travel #prehistory
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The Druids have aligned their #megaliths for the #Solstice, now we hoist tankards in the taverns. https://cromwell-intl.com/travel/france/pierre-tourneresse/?s=mc #travel #prehistory
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The Picts were up at dawn aligning their #megaliths. Now 'tis the time for feasting! https://cromwell-intl.com/travel/uk/orkney-neolithic/ring-of-brodgar.html?s=mc #Solstice #travel #prehistory
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The Picts were up at dawn aligning their #megaliths. Now 'tis the time for feasting! https://cromwell-intl.com/travel/uk/orkney-neolithic/stones-of-stenness.html?s=mc #Solstice #travel #prehistory
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The Picts have aligned their #megaliths for the #Solstice, now we hoist tankards in the taverns. https://cromwell-intl.com/travel/uk/orkney-neolithic/maeshowe.html?s=mc #travel #prehistory
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The Picts have aligned their #megaliths for the #Solstice, now we hoist tankards in the taverns. https://cromwell-intl.com/travel/uk/orkney-neolithic/knowe-of-onston.html?s=mc #travel #prehistory