Human Beginnings Archive

Humans Survived A Covid-19-Like Pandemic 25,000 Years Ago

AncientPages.com | November 23, 2020

Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Fear, frustration, anger, and sadness are just some of the many emotions we can experience during a pandemic outbreak. How a person handles

Fossil Of Extinct Human Species Shows Climate Change Contributed To Evolution And Anatomical Changes 2 Million Years Ago

Archaeology

Fossil Of Extinct Human Species Reveals Climate Change Led To Unexpected Anatomical Changes 2 Million Years Ago

AncientPages.com | November 11, 2020

Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - An interesting piece of fossil of extinct human species suggests climate change contributed to the evolution and unexpected anatomical changes that previously were

Archaeology

Unusual 260,000-Year-Old Modern-Shaped Florisbad Skull Challenges The Theory Of Evolution

AncientPages.com | November 2, 2020

Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A remarkable skull found in South Africa challenges the theory of evolution. This 260,000-year-old skull is extraordinary because the frontal bone of this

Digital reconstruction of specimen ATD6-69 from the Homo antecessor collection.

Human Beginnings

Genetic Evidence Retrieved From 800,000-Year-Old Human Tooth

AncientPages.com | April 2, 2020

Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - For the first time, researchers have retrieved genetic information from an 800,000-year-old human tooth, and data sheds light on one of the branching

Human Beginnings

Skull Reveals Little Foot Was Capable Of Different Head Movements Than Modern Humans

AncientPages.com | March 25, 2020

Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Little Foot is the nickname our ancestor, who lived more than 3 million years ago. Some years ago scientists said Little Foot is

Human Beginnings

Genetic Fingerprints Of Unknown Species Discovered In Human DNA

AncientPages.com | December 31, 2019

Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Scientists have discovered genetic fingerprints of unknown species in human DNA. Lurking within our genome are traces of genetic material from a variety

Archaeology

Last Homo Erectus Lived 117,000 Years Ago At Ngandong

AncientPages.com | December 19, 2019

Conny Waters – AncientPages.com - About 400,000 years ago, Homo erectus essentially vanished and researchers have tried to determine when and where one of modern humans' direct ancestors

Civilizations

95% Of All Modern Europeans Descended From The Seven Daughters Of Eve

AncientPages.com | December 12, 2019

Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - It is known today that 95% of modern Europeans can be traced to seven female genetic lines. These ancient women referred to as

Archaeology

Radar Reveals ‘Ghost’ Footprints From Pleistocene Era

AncientPages.com | November 13, 2019

Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Using a special type of radar, scientists have discovered “ghost” footprints dating as far back as the Pleistocene Era. Invisible footprints hiding since

Human Beginnings

Did An Ancient Supernova Force Humans To Walk Upright?

AncientPages.com | October 24, 2019

Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Is it possible that certain cosmic events have shaped human evolution? One of the most puzzling mysteries concerns what caused humans to start

Archaeology

Discovery Of Oldest Human Footprint In The Americas Can Re-Write History

AncientPages.com | April 30, 2019

Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - It took several years, but scientists have now confirmed this is the oldest human footprint in the Americas. The discovery is significant as it

Archaeology

8-Million-Year-Old Jaw May Offer Evidence Humans Evolved In Europe Instead Of Africa – Controversial Theory Suggests

AncientPages.com | April 24, 2019

Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Scientists have presented a controversial idea suggesting humans evolved in Europe instead of Africa. They base their theory on an 8-million-year-old skull that could

Archaeology

Homo Erectus Was Too Lazy And Went Extinct

AncientPages.com | August 14, 2018

AncientPages.com - Homo Erectus, one of our closest ancient ancestors is an extinct species of often credited with first major innovation in stone tool technology. Being innovative is a

Archaeology

13,000-Year-Old Human Footprints Discovered In Canada

AncientPages.com | March 30, 2018

AncientPages.com - It’s not easy to find footprints from the last Ice Age in an area that is today covered by dense forest, but archaeologists have discovered as many

"The footprints, left one after the other, indicate that this creature was perfectly adapted to moving swiftly across the land in a two-footed position. From this point of view, we are dealing with our family, our relatives"

Archaeology

Oldest Known Fossil Footprints Discovered On Crete By Polish Researcher Challenge Established Theories Of Human Evolution

AncientPages.com | November 11, 2017

AncientPages.com - The oldest known human-like footprints recently preserved in Trachilos, Crete are nearly 6 million years old and represent one of the recent and most fascinating discoveries in paleontology. Fossil footprints

This find has a long, about 9.7 million years old history.Image credit: Mainz Natural History Museum

Archaeology

Controversial 9,7-Million-Year-Old Teeth May Re-Write Human History – Is European Continent The Cradle Of Humanity?

AncientPages.com | October 20, 2017

AncientPages.com - How long have humans been on Earth? When and where did modern humans appear for the first time? These are questions scientists still debate and every time

Neanderthal DNA influences many physical traits in people of Eurasian heritage. Credit: Michael Smeltzer, Vanderbilt University

Did Neanderthals Practice Religion?

AncientPages.com | December 28, 2016

Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - There are still many things we don’t know about Neanderthals, but new discoveries provide us with knowledge about our closest extinct human relatives

Genetic analyses supports the view that the ancestors of Native Americans arrived in Alaska from Siberia across the land bridge known as Beringia and not from Europe or the Middle East [Credit: Painting by G. Mülzel via Wikipedia

Archaeology

Ancient Trans-Atlantic Emigration Theory – Not Supported By Genetic Data, Researcher Says

AncientPages.com | January 18, 2016

AncientPages.com - Genetic data does not support ancient trans-Atlantic migration, Kansas University professor says. This hypothesis, which was recently supported by several documentaries and publications, has contributed to the

Researchers have now identified the presence of Helicobacter pylori in Ötzi's stomach contents, a bacterium found in half of all humans today.

Archaeology

Ötzi The Iceman’s Stomach Bacteria And Complex History Of European Settlements

AncientPages.com | January 8, 2016

AncientPages.com - An international team of scientists working with paleopathologist Albert Zink and microbiologist Frank Maixner from the European Academy (EURAC) in Bozen/Bolzano have now identified the presence of Helicobacter

Ancient Irish genomes each show unequivocal evidence for massive migration.

Archaeology

Intriguing Genetics: First Ancient Irish Human Genomes – Sequenced

AncientPages.com | December 29, 2015

AncientPages.com - A team of geneticists from Trinity College Dublin and archaeologists from Queen’s University Belfast have sequenced the genomes of an early farmer woman, who lived near Belfast

The remains of several other human bones were found in the cave at Viste where Viste Boy was discovered. These belonged to an adult human. Credits: University of Stavanger

Archaeology

8200-Year-Old ‘Viste Individual’ – DNA Analysis May Shed Light On Early Migration To Norway

AncientPages.com | December 6, 2015

AncientPages.com - A small piece of the skull of the 8200-year-old “Viste Boy” has been sent to a Swedish laboratory for DNA analysis. Scientists hope to learn more about early

Virtual reconstruction of the camp. Image: Luis Alberto Marcos

Archaeology

13,000-Year-Old Engraving May Depict First Paleolithic Social Group Of Humans

AncientPages.com | December 4, 2015

AncientPages.com - 13,000 year-old engraving uncovered in Spain may depict a hunter-gatherer campsite, according to researchers Marcos García-Diez from University of the Basque Country, Spain, and Manuel Vaquero from

Neither population increase nor ecological changes provide an adequate explanation for patterns of human movement into new regions which began around 100,000 years ago. She suggests that as commitments to others became more essential to survival, and human groups ever more motivated to identify and punish those who cheat, the ‘dark’ side of human nature also developed.

Archaeology

Did Human Nature’s Dark Side Help Us Spread Across The World?

AncientPages.com | November 25, 2015

AncientPages.com - Modern humans spread rapidly around the world from 100,000 years ago but neither population increase nor ecological changes provide an adequate explanation for patterns of this behavior. Now,

Researchers had noticed that people from southern Europe tend to be shorter than those from northern Europe. The new study suggests that the height differential arises both from people in the north having more ancestry from Eurasian steppe populations, who seem to have been taller, and people in the south having more ancestry from Neolithic and Chalcolithic groups from the Iberian peninsula, who seem to have been shorter.

Archaeology

DNA Study Reveals How Europe’s Hunter-Gatherers Adapted To A New Way Of Life – Farming

AncientPages.com | November 24, 2015

AncientPages.com - The introduction of agriculture into Europe about 8,500 years ago changed the way people lived right down to their DNA. Now, an international team reports in Nature that researchers

The fossilized skull of Homo erectus discovered at the site of the grotto of Hualong, in the district of Dongzhi, in the Chinese province of Anhui [Credit: Xinhua]

Human Beginnings

“Dongzhi Man” – Ancient Human Fossil Discovered In China

AncientPages.com | November 22, 2015

AncientPages.com - An "uncommonly well-preserved" fossilized skull of homo erectus has been discovered by Chinese archaeologists, at the Hualongdong archaeological site in Dongzhi County, in east China. The discovery contributes to

"Saccopastore remains are 100,000 years older than previously thought – and push back the arrival of Neanderthal man in Italy to 250,000 years ago”

Archaeology

Neanderthals Were Present In Italy Much Earlier Than Previously Thought

AncientPages.com | November 6, 2015

AncientPages.com - A new study indicates that Neanderthal man arrived on the Italian peninsular some 100,000 years earlier than previously thought. Researchers analyzed radioactive deposits that were found in

Our species, Homo sapiens, is thought to have appeared in Africa around 200,000 years ago. The details of its dispersal from there are still murky. The latest study suggests that our ancestors first spread east, via the Arabian Peninsula, and entered South Asia long before the 60,000 year mark (shown by the yellow arrow). Photo Credit: Daily Mail.

Archaeology

Fossil Teeth Reveal: Humans Were Present In Asia ‘20,000 Years Earlier’ Than Previously Thought

AncientPages.com | October 15, 2015

AncientPages.com - A discovery of human teeth in southern China has shaken the facts on the spread of modern humans, as it places Homo sapiens in Asia much

The Ahrensburg culture or Ahrensburgian (11th to 10th millennia BCE) was a late Upper Paleolithic nomadic hunter culture (or technocomplex) in north-central Europe

Archaeology

12,000-Year-Old Ice Age Stone Tools Found – Earliest Dated Evidence For Human Activity in Scotland

AncientPages.com | October 10, 2015

AncientPages.com - Archaeologists from the University of Reading have found a set of 12,000-year-old tools made by the Ahrensburgian culture, which flourished in mainland Europe towards the end of

An artist impression of what the asteroid impacts would have looked like. (Illustration by Don Dixon, copyright Erik Sturkell)

Human Beginnings

Scientists confirm the world’s only twin asteroid strike in Sweden

AncientPages.com | October 1, 2015

AncientPages.com - 60 million years ago, two asteroids struck Earth in what is now Sweden. It is the only proven example of such a double strike. The only

“The present sea levels in Australia were reached 7,000 years ago and as such any stories about the coastline stretching much further out to sea had to pre-date that time.”

Civilizations

Aboriginal ‘Memories’ Of Australia’s Coastline Go Back More Than 7,000 Years

AncientPages.com | September 30, 2015

AncientPages.com - Aboriginal society has preserved memories of Australia's coastline dating back more than 7,000 years, researchers say. After three years of painstaking research, University of the Sunshine

Lateral view of the Paranthropus robustus skull SK 46 from the site of Swartkrans, South Africa showing the 3D virtual reconstruction of the ear and the hearing results for the early hominins. Credit: Rolf Quam

Human Beginnings

New Study: Fossils Reveal Human Ancestors’ Hearing Abilities

AncientPages.com | September 28, 2015

AncientPages.com - Research into human fossils dating back to approximately two million years ago reveals that the hearing pattern resembles chimpanzees, but with some slight differences in the

Human Beginnings

Rising Star Expedition Reveals New species: Homo naledi

AncientPages.com | September 10, 2015

AncientPages.com - The discovery of 15 individuals, consisting of 1,550 bones, represents the largest fossil hominin find on the African continent. It also raises intriguing questions about our

Human Beginnings

Common genetic origin for farmers from Central Europe and the Mediterranean area

AncientPages.com | September 5, 2015

An international team of researchers has sequenced the first complete genome of an Iberian farmer. It is also the first ancient genome from the Mediterranean. This new genome

Human Beginnings

Human body has gone through four stages of evolution, new study

AncientPages.com | September 1, 2015

Research into 430,000-year-old fossils collected in northern Spain found that the evolution of the human body’s size and shape has gone through four main stages, according to a

Human Beginnings

Abric Romaní Cave: New evidence indicates Neanderthals used to heat water some 60,000 years ago

AncientPages.com | August 31, 2015

Archaeologists from The Catalan Institute of Human Paleoecology and Social Evolution (IPHES) found about 10,000 Neanderthal artifacts and a sleeping area at Abric Romaní, an archaeological site located