![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]](https://www.ancientpages.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/dongzhiman1.jpg "\"Dongzhi Man\" - Ancient Human Fossil Discovered In China")
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 the study of the evolution and distribution of early man. This is
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 sediments present inside two Neanderthal skulls unearthed in a gravel pit Saccopastore,
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 earlier than previously thought. So far scientific evidence indicated that humans moved
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 the last Ice Age. The tools – unearthed on the coastline of
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 known evidence of two asteroids simultaneously crashing to earth has been unearthed
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 Coast Professor of Geography Patrick Nunn and collaborator Nick Reid, a University of
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 direction of humans. An international team of scientists led by Rolf Quam
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 evolutionary past. While primitive in some respects, the face, skull, and teeth
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 provides the distinctive genetic changes of Neolithic migration in southern Europe that
AncientPages.com – 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 paper published this week. A large international research team including
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – 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 in a cliff outside of the village
AncientPages.com – The Ice Age world was, geologically, just a moment ago. Fascinating but today extinct giant animals, like mammoths, mastodons and giant ground sloths, coexisted with early Americans in those days. For millions of years, these animals survived, living in
