Among the many surprises associated with the discovery of the oldest known, nearly complete skeleton of a hominid is the finding that this species took its first steps toward bipedalism not on the open, grassy savanna, as ...
Archaeology
Oct 8, 2009
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In a special issue of Science, an international team of scientists has for the first time thoroughly described Ardipithecus ramidus, a hominid species that lived 4.4 million years ago in what is now Ethiopia. This research, ...
Archaeology
Oct 1, 2009
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In the French cave of Arago, an international team of scientists has analyzed the dental wear of the fossils of herbivorous animals hunted by Homo heidelbergensis. It is the first time that an analytical method has allowed ...
Archaeology
Jul 14, 2009
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Researchers from the Institut Català de Paleontologia (ICP), from Universitat Autňnoma de Barcelona, directed by professor Salvador Moyà-Solà, publish this week in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) ...
Archaeology
Jun 2, 2009
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Ancient footprints found at Rutgers' Koobi Fora Field School show that some of the earliest humans walked like us and did so on anatomically modern feet 1.5 million years ago.
Archaeology
Feb 26, 2009
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Dazzling new scientific techniques are allowing archaeologists to track the movements and menus of extinct hominids through the seasons and years as they ate their way across the African landscape, helping to illuminate the ...
Archaeology
Feb 12, 2009
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