Archaeology
The discovery of the ice man
When we hear the word mummy, our minds immediately travel to those well-known Egyptian mummies. However, as we saw in previous publications …
Prehistory
Are We What We Eat? Nutrition from an Evolutionary Perspective
The paleo diet, the keto diet, the Dukan diet, the Atkins diet, the LOW-CARB diet, the carnivore diet… you’ve probably heard of them, right?…
Prehistory
The landscape of change: between Neanderthals and Sapiens
The extinction of the Neanderthals (Homo neanderthalensis), a matter with many questions and few answers. But, above all, a question that an…
Archaeology
THE CAVE OF LES TEIXONERES: HUMANS AND CARNIVORES SHARING SPACE
Summer arrives, along with the excavation campaign season. This is the case for the archaeological site of the Cova de les Teixoneres, part …
Prehistory
Humans... and stubborn ones at that. A brain shaped by millennia of nutrition.
Throughout our lives, we have heard many times that "we are what we eat." Of course, this is true, and there is plenty of scientific evidenc…
Prehistory
Prehistoric women: some biological aspects of childbirth.
Human childbirth is a process that we know perfectly when it comes to our own species. We understand the different stages of development and…