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 the end of the last ice age offer valuable historical information about
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 to walk upright 4.2 million, and possibly even 6 million years ago.
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 can re-write history and shed new light on human presence in America.
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 belong to a previously unknown species and one of humanity’s earliest evolutionary
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 good thing, but Homo Erectus didn’t do enough to survive. Researchers from
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 as 29 human footprints of at least three different sizes. Radiocarbon dating
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 that challenge established theories of human evolution and are approximately 5.7 million
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 we think we know the truth, new findings force us to reconsider
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Some would say it’s just a piece of rock, but to a Neanderthal that lived 130,000 years ago, it was a precious item. He or she picked it up and decided to decorate a cave
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 population of Native Americans, often called an “Ice Age Columbus.” “That hypothesis
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 pylori in Ötzi’s stomach contents, a bacterium found in half of all humans
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 some 5,200 years ago, and three men from a later period, around
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 migration into Norway as well as clarify the skeleton’s actual sex. The
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 Catalan Institute of Human Palaeoecology and Social Evolution – IPHES, Spain. It’s a
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. A study conducted by Dr. Penny Spikins, an archaeologist at the University of
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 can see how natural selection happened by analyzing ancient human DNA. By
