Homo sapiens Archive
Human Beginnings
AncientPages.com - The period between 50,000 to 40,000 years ago saw a crucial biological and cultural transformation for humans: this was the time when local groups of Neanderthals
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Fossils
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – AncientPages.com – The story of Ekgmowechashala, the final primate to inhabit North America before Homo sapiens or Clovis people, reads like a spaghetti western:
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DNA
AncientPages.com - For generations, Neanderthals have been a source of fascination for scientists. This species of ancient hominim inhabited the world for around 500,000 years until they suddenly
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DNA
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - By analyzing genomes up to 40,000 years old, scientists have traced the history of migrations between Homo Sapiens and Neanderthals. About 40,000 years
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Evolution
AncientPages.com - Our species, Homo sapiens, migrated out of Africa multiple times – reaching the Levant and Arabia between 130,000 and 70,000 years ago, as exemplified by human fossils
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Evolution
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A team of evolutionary scientists has presented evidence the Neanderthals vanishing when Homo sapiens emerged in Europe may have been coincidental. In a
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Scientists have long tried to solve a complicated Ice Age mystery, and they now suggest pollen analysis may be the answer to this
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Half a million years ago, earlier than was previously thought possible, humans were building structures made of wood, according to new research by
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Fossils
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Researchers recently studied the remains of a modern human baby unearthed in the Grotte du Renne ("Reindeer's cave") located in Arcy-sur-Cure, Northeast France.
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DNA
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - In testing the genetic material of current populations in Africa and comparing against existing fossil evidence of early Homo sapiens populations there, researchers have
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Evolution
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - What connects a fossil found in a cave in northern Laos with stone tools made in north Australia? The answer is, we do.
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Evolution
AncientPages.com - The French archaeologist Ludovic Slimak has spent the past 30 years rummaging fields and caves from the Horn of Africa to the Artic Circle, and, of
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Evolution
AncientPages.com - Just over two decades ago, as the new millennium began, it seemed that tracks left by our ancient human ancestors dating back more than about 50,000 years
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - The Neanderthals and Homo sapiens were both innovative and often devised similar surviving techniques independently. Recently, scientists demonstrated Neanderthals invented or developed birch
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - The first modern humans spread across Europe in three waves during the Paleolithic, according to a new study. The archaeological record of Paleolithic
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Evolution
AncientPages.com - Homo sapiens, our own species, evolved in Africa sometime between 300,000 and 200,000 years ago. Anthropologists are pretty confident in that estimate, based on fossil, genetic and archaeological evidence. Then what happened? How modern humans
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Archaeology
AncientPages.com - It’s not called the Third Pole for nothing. The Tibetan Plateau forms the major portion of a vast upland area of ice and glaciers that covers some 100,000
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - It is called radiocarbon 3.0, the newest method in radiocarbon dating, and promises to reveal valuable new insights about key events in the
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - In their recent publication in the Journal of Human Evolution, UConn Department of Anthropology Professor Christian Tryon and Shara Bailey, Director of the Center
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Until the beginning of this century, the production of fully worked bone tools was considered an innovation introduced in Europe around 40,000 years
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Featured Stories
AncientPages.com - In evolutionary terms, the human population has rocketed in seconds. The news that it has now reached 8 billion seems inexplicable when you think about our
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A new paper proposes that Homo sapiens may have been responsible for the extinction of Neanderthals not by violence, but through sex instead.
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Researchers have discovered Homo sapiens did indeed live and survive in the Kalahari Desert more than 20,000 years ago. Griffith University archaeologist Dr.
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - We need to dispel the arrogant and misguided idea that modern humans are superior to earlier human species. It is thanks in part
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Scientists have discovered surprising evidence modern humans successively inhabited the Mandrin Cave in France within an interval of barely a year. Studies of
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Quintessential human traits such as large brains first appear in Homo erectus nearly 2 million years ago. This evolutionary transition towards human-like traits is often
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - The age of the oldest fossils in eastern Africa widely recognized as representing our species, Homo sapiens, has long been uncertain. Now, dating of
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - What routes did Homo sapiens take on his way from Africa to Europe and Asia in the previous millennia? The climatic conditions changed,
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - The Tibetan Plateau has long been considered one of the last places to be populated by people in their migration around the globe.
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Traditional assumptions have often seen tropical rainforests as a barrier to early Homo sapiens. However, growing proof shows that humans adapted to and lived
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - The longest lasting tool-making tradition in prehistory, known as the Acheulean, appears more than 1.5 million years ago in Africa and 1.2 million
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Researchers have studied settlement movements of Homo sapiens in the Levant 43,000 years ago. Using favorable climatic conditions on their long way from
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Homo Neanderthaliensis did not become extinct because of changes in climate. At least, this did not happen to the several Neanderthals groups that
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - The earliest ancestors of anatomically modern humans (Homo sapiens sapiens) emerged in a southern African ‘homeland’ and thrived there for 70 thousand years,
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Stone tools ranging in age from 500,000 to 60,000 years old in gold mines in eastern Sudan, have been discovered by an international team
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