Here we go with our latest round-up of news and views from around the world. If you see anything you think we might have missed, do drop us a line. Many thanks to Herman de Swart for his continued support sending in links!
Cave Art
Ancient Origins: Ancient Cave Found in Egypt with Unique Predynastic Rock Carvings
Smithsonian Magazine: See Ancient Cave Art Found in Egypt’s Sinai Desert
The Siberian Times: Alfresco art gallery ‘shows woolly mammoths and rhinos depicted by our ancestors 15,000 years ago’
Scientific America: Signs of Modern Human Cognition Were Found in an Indonesian Cave
Toutella Thailande: Des peintures rupestres découvertes dans l’ouest de la Thaïlande
EurekAlert!: Miniature rock art expands horizons
EurekAlert!: Doubts about the Nerja cave art having been done by neanderthals
New Scientist: An artist carved this tiny bird sculpture 13,000 years ago in China
EurekAlert!: Ancient bird figurine recovered from refuse heap the oldest instance of East Asian 3D art
World Archaeology: The bear necessities
Cave Archaeology
ABC News: New palaeontology dig at World Heritage-listed Naracoorte Caves sees PhD student living her dream
EurekAlert!: Neandertals were choosy about making bone tools
The North Coast Courier: Sibudu Cave to be declared a heritage site
Mexico News Daily: Scientists find evidence of fires built in Yucatán cave 10,000 years ago
EurekAlert!: The oldest Upper Paleolithic Homo sapiens in Europe
New Scientist: Neanderthals may have learned jewellery-making from us
Earth-logs: More time for modern humans to have mingled with Neanderthals
Sci News: European Cave Bears Had Pure Herbivorous Diet
ABC News: Pilbara cave explosion on par with Palmyra – UNESCO Chair
EurekAlert!: On the hunt for megafauna in North America
PhysOrg: Cave divers search depths for the bones of the Ice Age
EurekAlert!: A Neandertal from Chagyrskaya Cave
PhysOrg: A Neandertal from Chagyrskaya Cave
Science Daily: A Neanderthal woman from Chagyrskaya Cave
Archaeology: Third Neanderthal Genome Sequenced
The Siberian Times: Neanderthal woman’s walk of love some 90,000 years ago between two caves 106 km apart
Monash University: In a South African cave, another piece in the puzzle of human evolution
EurekAlert! Naturally perforated shells one of the earliest adornments in the Middle Paleolithic
ArsTecnica: 120,000-year-old necklace tells of the origin of string
Gozmodo: 14,000-Year-Old Poop Found in Oregon Cave Turns Out to Be Human
EurekAlert!: Neanderthals of Western Mediterranean did not become extinct because of changes in climate
National Geographic: Surprise cave discoveries may double the time people lived in the Americas
Nature: Controversial cave discoveries suggest humans reached Americas much earlier than thought
Nature: Evidence grows that peopling of the Americas began more than 20,000 years ago
Cave Exploration
CBC: Why researchers believe one of Canada’s largest caves went undetected for so long
Mail Online: Daring scuba diver photographs breathtaking labyrinth of underwater caves beneath a Mexican riviera
Tehran Times: Natural cave discovered in north Iran
Good News Network: The Newly-Discovered Canadian Cave Big Enough to Fit the Statue of Liberty: What They’ve Found After 2 Years Study
VN Express: Discover giant sinkhole in Vietnam’s Phong Nha-Ke Bang cave system
Click 2 Houston: Texas caverns: Everything you need to know about the state’s private and public caves
Xinhuanet: Discover China: A French caver’s decades-long adventure in China
ABC: Floating though the dolines
Mine Exploration
Cornwall Live: Inside the deep underground tunnels that show off Cornwall’s rich past
AAAS: Underwater caves in Mexico preserve one of the world’s oldest ochre mines
National Geographic: 11,000-year-old mine in underwater cave surprises archaeologists
Cave Science
New Scientist: Bats can learn to copy sounds and it may teach us about human speech
EurekAlert!: Coronaviruses and bats have been evolving together for millions of years
Nature: Bats are a key source of human viruses — but they’re not special
EurekAlert! The cause of the red coloration in stalagmites
EurekAlert! Evidence of Late Pleistocene human colonization of isolated islands beyond Wallace’s Line
Atlas Obscura: Akiyoshido Cave: Approximately 300 million years ago, a massive coral reef existed in what is now the largest limestone cave in Japan.
Le Journal: Des empreintes de dinosaures dans une grotte de Lozère
Science Daily: Human-driven pollution alters the environment even underground
EurekAlert!: A lost world and extinct ecosystem
EurekAlert!: Eavesdropping crickets drop from the sky to evade capture by bats
Cordis, EU Research Results: Cave formations uncover hidden history of past climates
PhysOrg: Caves indicate that Australia’s mountains are still growing
EurekAlert!: Gene found that causes eyes to wither in cavefish
The Guardian: ‘Baby dragons’ go on display for the first time in Slovenia
Tehran Times: Iranian cave estimated to date over 63,000 years
PhysOrg: Novel species of fungi discovered on bat carcasses in the limestone caves of southwest China
Cave Rescue
Borneo Times Online: Mulu National Park Mount Cave Search and Rescue team launched today
Miscellaneous
BBC: India coronavirus lockdown: Broke tourists rescued from cave
Atlas Obscura: Tham Piew Cave: A tangible and sobering reminder of an atrocity that took place during a secret war.
Military Times: Watch coalition aircraft pummeling ISIS cave complexes in Iraq
Insider: A diver swims through a sunbeam in the Cenote Taj Mahal in Quintana Roo, Mexico.
Tehran Times: Discover how pinnacle of art, genius of ancient architects turned natural arch into full-fledged stronghold
The Impartial Reporter: Marble Arch Caves is still going strong after 35 years
Tehran Times: A taste of Jurassic world: Iran’s Katale-Khor cave on agenda to be a tourism hub
Total Slovenia News: Where to Go Caving in Slovenia
The Star: Need to conserve Batu Caves
Unilad: Stunning Photos Show Inside Of Rainbow-Coloured ‘Forgotten’ Sea Cave In Cornwall
One Zero: This Woman Inspired One of the First Hit Video Games by Mapping the World’s Longest Cave
