AncientPages.com – Neanderthals have served as a reflection of our own humanity since they were first discovered in 1856. What we think we know about them has been shaped and moulded to fit our cultural trends, social norms and scientific standards.
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Neanderthals are the closest relatives to modern humans. Comparisons with them can therefore provide fascinating insights into what makes present-day humans unique, for example regarding the development of the brain. The neocortex, the largest part
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Hominin fossils discovered at the Toros-Menalla site in Chad’s Djurab desert have substantially contributed to scientists’ understanding of early human evolution in Africa. According to a new study published in Nature, the fossilized find suggests
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – An international team of researchers has discovered that a mysterious microscopic creature from which humans were thought to descend is part of a different family tree. Resembling an angry Minion, the Saccorhytus is a spikey,
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. Jayne Wilkins said the general assumption is that the Kalahari is a harsh
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – AncientPages.com – New Curtin research has provided the strongest evidence yet that Earth’s continents were formed by giant meteorite impacts that were particularly prevalent during the first billion years or so of our planet’s four-and-a-half-billion year
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Did the 12th century B.C.E.—a time when humans were forging great empires and developing new forms of written text—coincide with an evolutionary reduction in brain size? Think again, says a UNLV-led team of researchers who
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – A long-standing Canadian mystery may have finally been solved. A combination of archaeological and geological studies shed new light on when the first humans reached the region around Fort McMurray, Alberta. There is a wealth
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – A recent study by scientists from the University of Texas at Austin finds that a site in New Mexico offers some of the most conclusive evidence for humans settling in North America much earlier than
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – AncientPage.com – Four billion years ago, the Earth looked very different than it does today, devoid of life and covered by a vast ocean. Over the course of millions of years, in that primordial soup, life
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Human footprints believed to date from the end of the last Ice Age have been discovered on the salt flats of the Air Force’s Utah Testing and Training Range (UTTR) by Cornell researcher Thomas Urban
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Scientists have previously confirmed modern humans and Neanderthals are closely related. In a past study, researchers discovered just 7% of our DNA is unique to modern humans! According to the study published by Science Advances, humans
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – For the first time, researchers successfully sequenced the genome of ancient human fossils from the Late Pleistocene in southern China. The data, published July 14 in the journal Current Biology, suggests that the mysterious hominin belonged
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Scientists have found evidence the first humans to inhabit the Arctic appeared about 40,000 years ago, at the beginning of the Late Paleolithic. The discovery was made by scientists from the Siberian Section of the Russian
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Paleontologists may have unearthed the oldest European human fossil to date. Found at the world-famous Atapuerca prehistoric archaeological site in northern Spain, scientists have described the remarkable discovery as the “face of the first European.” Sierra
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Archaeologically excavated stone tools—some as much as 2.6 million years old—have been hailed as evidence for an early cultural heritage in human evolution. But are these tools proof that our ancestors were already becoming human,
