Human Beginnings Archive
Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - The ancient history of human evolution just got a bit more complicated, or perhaps the answers are there but scientists must still put
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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
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - How did the first modern humans reach the European continent? A new study shows that the first Homo sapiens could not have reached Europe over
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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
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Quintessential human traits such as large brains first appear in Homo erectus nearly 2 million years ago. This evolutionary transition towards human-like traits is often
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - The age of the oldest fossils in eastern Africa widely recognized as representing our species, Homo sapiens, has long been uncertain. Now, dating of
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - The evolution of writing is a complex issue, but the Vai script, a rare manuscript may offer clues into this important question scientists
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A new extinct reptile species has shed light on how our earliest ancestors became top predators by modifying their teeth in response to
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Most people around the world agree that the made-up word 'bouba' sounds round in shape, and the made-up word 'kiki' sounds pointy --
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - An international team, led by researchers from the Universities of Vienna and Tübingen, and the Max Planck Society, has identified five new human
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - An international team of researchers, led by Professor Lee Berger from Wits University, has revealed the first partial skull of a Homo naledi
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - An international team of researchers, led by University of Winnipeg palaeoanthropologist Dr. Mirjana Roksandic, has announced the naming of a new species of
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - The missing link isn't a not-yet-discovered fossil, after all. It's a tiny, self-replicating globule called a coacervate droplet, developed by two researchers in
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Humans have been always on the move, creating a complex history of languages and cultural traditions dispersed over the globe. An international team
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Learning more about the Neanderthals and Denisovans is significant if we want to understand how these extinct species are related to modern humans.
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Scientists have found evidence a comet strike 13,000 years ago may have changed human civilization. A cluster of comet fragments believed to have
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A near-perfectly preserved ancient human fossil known as the Harbin cranium sits in the Geoscience Museum in Hebei GEO University. The largest of
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Fear, frustration, anger, and sadness are just some of the many emotions we can experience during a pandemic outbreak. How a person handles
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - An interesting piece of fossil of extinct human species suggests climate change contributed to the evolution and unexpected anatomical changes that previously were
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A remarkable skull found in South Africa challenges the theory of evolution. This 260,000-year-old skull is extraordinary because the frontal bone of this
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - For the first time, researchers have retrieved genetic information from an 800,000-year-old human tooth, and data sheds light on one of the branching
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Little Foot is the nickname our ancestor, who lived more than 3 million years ago. Some years ago scientists said Little Foot is
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Scientists have discovered genetic fingerprints of unknown species in human DNA. Lurking within our genome are traces of genetic material from various ancient
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Conny Waters – AncientPages.com - About 400,000 years ago, Homo erectus essentially vanished and researchers have tried to determine when and where one of modern humans' direct ancestors
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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