Human Beginnings Archive

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.

Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Neanderthals are our closest extinct relatives and modern humans share 99.7% of their DNA. These intriguing beings were widespread across Europe and Western

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – AncientPages.com – A new study led by University of Arizona researchers may have solved two mysteries that have long puzzled paleo-climate experts: Where did

Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Scientists have just published a study of what may prove to be China's most ancient human fossil. Scientists at the Centro Nacional de

Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Proteins extracted from fragments of prehistoric eggshell found in the Australian sands confirm that the continent's earliest humans consumed the eggs of a

Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com -  Using new analyses, scientists have just found the last two of the five informational units of DNA and RNA that had yet to

Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - We need to dispel the arrogant and misguided idea that modern humans are superior to earlier human species. It is thanks in part

Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - The scientific debate concerning when the first people reached the American continent continues. A new analysis of archaeological sites in the Americas challenges

Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - An international team of scientists has found clear evidence for a link between astronomically-driven climate change and human evolution. According to the new

Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - The ancient human remains unearthed in the Bacho Kiro cave (in present-day Bulgaria) and recently genetically described were surprisingly reported to be more closely related

Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Neandertals disappeared around 40,000 years ago, but many details of their extinction remain unclear. To elucidate the situation, it is useful to explore

Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - The study of human evolution plays a vital role for the progress of science and history in society. There are still many riddles

Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A recent study shows preserving the memory of our ancestors has always been important to prehistoric humans. A first-of-its-kind study at Tel Aviv

Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Scientists have discovered surprising evidence modern humans successively inhabited the Mandrin Cave in France within an interval of barely a year. Studies of

Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A groundbreaking study in prehistoric archaeology at Tel Aviv University provides evidence for high cognitive abilities in early humans who lived 170,000 years