Human Beginnings Archive
Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - It is becoming increasingly clear that Neanderthals and Homo Sapiens shared a lot more similarities than we initially thought. A recent study has
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Human Beginnings
Jan Bartek - Ancientpages.com - The question of when the genus Homo first migrated from Africa to Europe has been a subject of ongoing research. Previously, it was
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Researchers have discovered stone tools bound together by a multi-component adhesive, providing further substantiation of the intellectual capacity of Neanderthals. These artifacts represent
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - The activities of Stone Age people extended beyond hunting and seeking shelter. Prior research indicates that the practice of personal adornment has been
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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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Evolution
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - The shift from dense forests to open plains in Africa may have caused our ancient ancestors to change their vocal calls, research involving
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - For more than 50 years, dental anthropologists have studied variation in the shape of human teeth to study the patterns of migration that
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - There may still be vanished human species unknown to scientists. A research team has discovered an unusual 300,000-year-old jawbone with an unexpected combination
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - One of the hottest debates in archaeology is how and when humans first arrived in North America. Archaeologists have traditionally argued that people
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Biology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A new research paper finds that genetic material from Neanderthal ancestors may have contributed to the propensity of some people today to be
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Hunting the now-extinct straight-tusked elephant (Palaeoloxodon antiquus) was widespread among Neanderthals, concludes a research team. In the study published in Proceedings of the
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A new study has clarified differences in the physical characteristics of rocks used by early humans during the Paleolithic. Scientists found that humans
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Earth Changes
Eddie Gonzales Jr. - AncientPages.com - For decades, we believed that outside ice ages Europe was mostly covered by dense forest before the arrival of modern humans. Now,
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Infants and toddlers may be psychologically wired to thrive with high levels of "sensitive care" and personal attention, according to a study conducted
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Evolution
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A new study has cast doubt on claims that Homo naledi, a small-brained hominin dating to between 335,000 and 241,000 years ago, deliberately
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - We may never know the thoughts and emotions of our long-gone ancestors. Still, we can gain plenty of other valuable information based on
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Evolution
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Marina Ascunce, currently at the USDA-ARS, and colleagues, report these findings in a study published in the journal PLOS ONE. Credit: Adobe Stock - Gorodenkoff The
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Evolution
AncientPages.com - Nine human species walked the Earth 300,000 years ago. Now there is just one. The Neanderthals, Homo neanderthalensis, were stocky hunters adapted to Europe’s cold steppes. The related Denisovans inhabited Asia,
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Featured Stories
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Scientists have unearthed the remains of hundreds of Neanderthals, but until this day, no one is as unique and famous as the La
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DNA
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Contemporary humans carry in their cells a small amount of DNA derived from Neanderthals and Denisovans. “Denny,” a 90,000-year-old fossil individual, recently identified
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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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DNA
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Modern humans migrated to Eurasia 75,000 years ago, where they encountered and interbred with Neanderthals. A new study published in the journal Current Biology shows
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - The fact that Neanderthals were able to make a fire and use it, among other things, for cooking, demonstrates their intelligence. "This confirms
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Neanderthals hunted cave lions and used the skin of this dangerous carnivore, a new study has shown for the first time. Excavations at
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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 - Previous studies show Neanderthals invented or developed birch tar making technique independently from Homo sapiens. Studying prehistoric production processes of birch bark tar
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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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Evolution
AncientPages.com - In 1933 a mysterious fossil skull was discovered near Harbin City in the Heilongjiang province of north-eastern China. Despite being nearly perfectly preserved – with square
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Archaeology
AncientPages.com - When and where did our ancestors first fashion footwear? We cannot look to physical evidence of shoes for the answer, as the perishable materials from which
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Evolution
AncientPages.com - Depending upon how you do the counting, there are around 9 million species on Earth, from the simplest single-celled organisms to humans. It’s reassuring to imagine that complex
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Limestone spheroids, enigmatic lithic artifacts from the ancient past, have perplexed archaeologists for years. While they span from the Oldowan to the Middle
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Human Beginnings
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Curly hair does more than simply look good. It may explain how early humans stayed cool while conserving water, according to researchers who
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Scientists have re-examined Neanderthals' perplexing Flower Burial at Shanidar Cave and made a fascinating discovery. The story started when researchers unearthed the well-preserved
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Painstaking archaeological exploration is a familiar, often widely admired, method of unearthing history. Less celebrated, but also invaluable, is the piecing together of
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