Human Beginnings Archive

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

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

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 --

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

AncientPages.com - The oldest known human-like footprints recently preserved in Trachilos, Crete are nearly 6 million years old and represent one of the recent and most fascinating discoveries in paleontology. Fossil footprints

Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Some would say it’s just a piece of rock, but to a Neanderthal that lived 130,000 years ago, it was a precious item.