Think of rainforests and the picture is inevitably one of a dark and forbidding realm where life is abundant, yet alarmingly cryptic. Rather than the sense of space offered by long, iconic grassland vistas, distance is compressed ...
Archaeology & Fossils
Sep 06, 2018
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Fast-accumulating data seem to indicate that our close cousins, the Neanderthals, were much more similar to us than imagined even a decade ago. But did they have anything like modern speech and language? And if so, what are ...
Archaeology & Fossils
Jul 09, 2013
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Just over 90 years ago a discovery was made that started a fascinating journey exploring human evolution in Africa. The Broken Hill skull was the first early human fossil to be found in Africa and evidence suggests it probably ...
Archaeology & Fossils
Mar 07, 2013
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A University of Toronto-led team of anthropologists has found evidence that human ancestors used stone-tipped weapons for hunting 500,000 years ago – 200,000 years earlier than previously thought.
Archaeology & Fossils
Nov 15, 2012
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Finds from early stone age site in north-central Germany show that human ingenuity is nothing new – and was probably shared by now-extinct species of humans.
Archaeology & Fossils
Sep 17, 2012
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(Phys.org) -- The world's largest known sample of fossil humans has been classified as the species Homo heidelbergensis but in fact are early Neanderthals, according to a study by Prof Chris Stringer of the Natural History ...
Archaeology & Fossils
Jun 13, 2012
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The reconstruction of 27 complete human limb bones found in Atapuerca (Burgos, Spain) has helped to determine the height of various species of the Pleistocene era. Homo heilderbergensis, like Neanderthals, were similar in ...
Archaeology & Fossils
Jun 06, 2012
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Research by a Cambridge archaeologist shows that back pain caused untold misery long before we started staring into screens and slumping on sofas.
Archaeology & Fossils
Feb 24, 2011
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