![]() ![]() Today, DNA can be extracted not only from bones, but even from cave sediments: the dust of long vanished lives, waiting for millennia to be found. And the advent of the ability to retrieve palaeogenomics from extraordinarily old contexts was nothing short of revolutionary. We use photogrammetry or lasers to record entire caves in 3D trace how stone tools were moved across the land examine microlayers within ancient hearths even pick out the starches preserved in grot between ancient teeth. ![]() All kinds of material analyses take place, in all sorts of ways. Research in the 21st century on our hominin relations, including Neanderthals, is an entirely interdisciplinary, collaborative endeavour. For research communities, the prize also feels like a recognition of the relevance of work on palaeogenomics, human origin and archaeology more broadly – and its continuing importance. ![]()
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