Human Beginnings Archive
Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - The use of ancient DNA, including samples of human remains around 45,000 years old, has shed light on a previously unknown aspect of
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A new paper proposes that Homo sapiens may have been responsible for the extinction of Neanderthals not by violence, but through sex instead.
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - The changing shape of the frontal sinuses is helping to reveal more about how modern humans, and our ancient relatives, evolved. An international
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Human Beginnings
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Cave paintings from the Lascaux complex in France to Ubirr in Australia have one characteristic in common—they depict hunters and their prey. Very
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - The first genetic data from Paleolithic human individuals in the U.K.—the oldest human DNA obtained from the British Isles so far—indicates the presence
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Archaeology
AncientPages.com - Humans are the only species to live in every environmental niche in the world – from the icesheets to the deserts, rainforests to savannahs. As individuals
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - The interior of Central Asia has been identified as a key route for some of the earliest hominin migrations across Asia, according to
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - What did our ancestors eat during the stone age? Mostly meat. Researchers at Tel Aviv University were able to reconstruct the nutrition of
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A new study has, for the first time used zinc isotope analysis to determine the position of Neanderthals in the food chain. The
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - The relationship between modern humans and neanderthals has been a subject of interest to anyone who wants to know more about our long-gone
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DNA
AncientPages.com - The Nobel prize in physiology or medicine for 2022 has been awarded to Svante Pääbo from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, "for his
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - To learn more about the cradle of civilization, scientists rely on archaeology, ancient history, paleontology, and the study of DNA that help researchers
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Despite more than half a century of hominin fossil discoveries in eastern Africa, the regional environmental context of the evolution and dispersal of
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Archaeology
Eddie Gonzales Jr. - AncientPages.com - Chinese paleologists have discovered two fossil repositories in southwestern Chongqing municipality and Guizhou province whose strata date back to the Silurian Period
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists and paleontologists have recently unearthed an intriguing 1-million-year-old human skull fossil that gives scientists a remarkable opportunity to get more insight into
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists excavating in Northern Spain have made an extraordinary discovery that they define as a breakthrough capable of rewriting the history of human
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - The quest to identify humans' oldest continues. As scientists explore the realm of animals that lived on this planet millions of years ago,
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Human Beginnings
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A new study shows that the area close to the modern shoreline of ancient Britain was a hub of human and animal activity
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - In the field of human genetics, the story of Mother Eve is a familiar one. It describes how all living humans descend from one
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Researchers have discovered a 380-million-year-old heart—the oldest ever found—alongside a separate fossilized stomach, intestine and liver in an ancient jawed fish, shedding new
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists in Georgia have found a 1.8-million-year-old tooth belonging to an early species of human. "The tooth was discovered near the village of
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Human Beginnings
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - The question of what makes modern humans unique has long been a driving force for researchers. Comparisons with our closest relatives, the Neandertals,
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Many people living today have a small component of Neanderthal DNA in their genes, suggesting an important role for admixture with archaic human
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Archaeology
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
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Archaeology
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
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Archaeology
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.
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Archaeology
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
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Archaeology
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.
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Human Beginnings
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
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Human Beginnings
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
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Archaeology
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
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Archaeology
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
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DNA
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.
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Archaeology
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
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Archaeology
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
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