Human Beginnings Archive
DNA
Eddie Gonzales Jr. - AncientPages.com- The first signs of life emerged on Earth in the form of microbes about four billion years ago. While scientists are still determining
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - In a cave just south of Lisbon, archaeological deposits conceal a Paleolithic dinner menu. As well as stone tools and charcoal, the site
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Our knowledge of the Neanderthals is constantly improving, but some aspects of our ancient ancestors' spiritual beliefs are still a riddle. Scientists are
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Featured Stories
AncientPages.com - That humans originated in Africa is widely accepted. But it’s not generally recognised how unique features of Africa’s ecology were responsible for the crucial evolutionary transitions from
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AncientPages.com - Many of us are returning to work or school after spending time with relatives over the summer period. Sometimes we can be left wondering how on
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A new study led by Western biological anthropology professor Jay Stock, suggests that milk consumption in some regions between 7,000 and 2,000 years
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AncientPages.com - One of the most hotly debated questions in the history of Neanderthal research has been whether they created art. In the past few years, the consensus
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - If you take a magnifying glass and a flashlight and look at your teeth very carefully in the mirror, in places you can
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DNA
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Humans and chimpanzees differ in only one percent of their DNA. Human accelerated regions (HARs) are parts of the genome with an unexpected
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com -The analysis of ancient DNA allows scientists to trace human evolution and make important discoveries about modern populations. The data revealed by ancient DNA
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - The movement of people across the Bering Sea from North Asia to North America is a well-known phenomenon in early human history. Nevertheless,
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Scientists say they are investigating a 1-million-year-old human skull that gives a remarkable opportunity to get more insight into the complex history of
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DNA
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - The length of a specific generation can tell us a lot about the biology and social organization of humans. Now, researchers at Indiana
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Archaeoastronomy
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – AncientPages.com – The last time comet named C/2022 E3 (ZTF) was spotted was during the Upper Paleolithic period. Our distant relatives, the Neanderthals, watched
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Featured Stories
AncientPages.com - Many believe our particularly large brain is what makes us human – but is there more to it? The brain’s shape, as well as the shapes
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - If you had the grooming habits of a Neanderthal, perhaps it's a good thing your nose wasn't as sensitive to urine and sweat
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Orangutans, mice, and horses are covered with it, but humans aren't. Why we have significantly less body hair than most other mammals has
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Everything must have a beginning somewhere at some point in time. It does not matter in which country we live today because, according
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Archaeology
Eddie Gonzales Jr. - AncientPages.com - By reconstructing the sea level history of the Bering Strait, scientists found that the strait remained flooded until around 35,700 years ago,
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Human Beginnings
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Human bipedalism—walking upright on two legs—may have evolved in trees, and not on the ground as previously thought, according to a new study
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Analysis of teeth of extinct lemurs has revealed fascinating clues to the evolution of humans, a University of Otago study has found. Lead
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Archaeology
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – AncientPages.com – Changes in Earth's orbit that favored hotter conditions may have helped trigger a rapid global warming event 56 million years ago that
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - For over a century, one of the earliest human fossils ever discovered in Spain has been long considered a Neandertal. However, new analysis
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - This new study demonstrates how the creative use of unconventional research methods turned an unfortunate archaeological sampling event into a scientific success story.
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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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