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. But are these tools proof that our ancestors were already becoming ...
Archaeology
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A team of mineralogists and geologists at the University of Granada has discovered the secret behind the durability of ancient Maya plaster. In their study, reported in Science Advances, the group studied samples of the ancient ...
The first modern humans spread across Europe in three waves during the Paleolithic, according to a study published May 3, 2023, in the open-access journal PLOS ONE by Ludovic Slimak of the CNRS and University of Toulouse ...
Archaeology
May 3, 2023
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An international team of researchers have uncovered the remains of a new species of human in the Philippines, proving the region played a key role in hominin evolutionary history.
Archaeology
Apr 10, 2019
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Stone tools have been made by humans and their ancestors for millions of years. For archaeologists, these rocky remnants—lithic artifacts and flakes—are of key importance. Because of their high preservation potential, ...
Archaeology
Jun 2, 2021
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A team of researchers from the Max Planck Institute of Evolutionary Anthropology and Aix-Marseille University has found evidence that suggests a group of chimpanzees who throw stones at trees appear to do so for the acoustical ...
Fieldwork led by Dr. Eleanor Scerri, head of the Pan-African Evolution Research Group at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History in Germany and Dr. Khady Niang of the University of Cheikh Anta Diop in Senegal, ...
Archaeology
Jan 11, 2021
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The scientific debate continues over the bones of the mysterious human-like creature Homo floresiensis – nicknamed "Hobbits" – with the discovery of new fossils in the So'a Basin on the island of Flores, Indonesia, dating ...
Archaeology
Jun 9, 2016
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International research involving the University of Adelaide has shed new light on the origins of some of the most widely spoken languages in the world.
Social Sciences
Mar 3, 2015
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With the help of geomagnetic surface surveys and subsequent hands-on digging, an excavation team from Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU) has revealed new insights into the area in which the caliph's palace of Khirbat ...
Archaeology
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