News tagged with early hominids

Stone artifacts with handaxes and picks found in Danjiangkou reservoir area, China

Danjiangkou reservoir is located in the northwest of Hubei province and southwest of Henan province at the headwaters area of the Middle Route of the South-to-North Water Transfer Project. In October, 2004, ...

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created May 18, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

New technologies challenge old ideas about early hominid diets

New assessments by researchers using the latest high-tech tools to study the diets of early hominids are challenging long-held assumptions about what our ancestors ate, says a study by the University of Colorado ...

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created Oct 13, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

Study: Ancient hominid males stayed home while females roamed

The males of two bipedal hominid species that roamed the South African savannah more than a million years ago were stay-at-home kind of guys when compared to the gadabout gals, says a new high-tech study led ...

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created Jun 01, 2011 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (7) | comments 15 | with audio podcast

Sifting through S. Africa's archaeological riches

When Morris Sutton picks a chipped, ordinary-looking rock from the soil, he's the first to touch the stone tool since an ancestor of man used it nearly 2 million years ago.

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created Sep 28, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

The Rise of the Mind

When and where did the cognitive abilities of modern humans arise? It's a big question -- one debated by anthropologists for decades. It's an even bigger question for an undergraduate thesis, but senior Logan ...

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created Apr 22, 2010 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (7) | comments 5