New research shows for the first time that competition was fundamental to speciation -- the rate at which new species emerge -- across 5 million years of hominin evolution. The post Interspecif...
https://www.sci.news/othersciences/anthropology/hominin-interspecific-competition-12866.html
Archaeologists have evaluated the spatial organization in the Protoaurignacian levels (associated with Homo sapiens) and the latest Mousterian levels (associated with Neanderthals) at Riparo Bomb...
https://www.sci.news/archaeology/neanderthal-space-use-12850.html
Nelson Mandela University researcher Charles Helm and his colleagues have found an intriguing rock about 30 km (18.6 miles) east of the South African Blombos Cave, which is renowned for its paleo...
https://www.sci.news/archaeology/stingray-sand-sculpture-south-africa-12840.html
Wooden tools rarely survive in the Paleolithic record limiting our understanding of Pleistocene hunter-gather lifeways. The post Study: Woodworking Played Important Role in Human Evolution app...
https://www.sci.news/othersciences/anthropology/schoeningen-spears-12834.html
Archaeologists have dated an assemblage of ancient stone tools excavated from the archaeological site of Korolevo on the Tysa River in western Ukraine at 1.42 million years old. The post 1.4-Mi...
https://www.sci.news/archaeology/homo-erectus-stone-tools-ukraine-12746.html
Archaeologists have found traces of ancient ochre-based multicomponent adhesives on 40,000-year-old stone tools from Le Moustier, France. The post Neanderthals Created Stone Tools Held Together...
https://www.sci.news/archaeology/neanderthal-ochre-based-adhesives-12710.html
Homo sapiens associated with the Lincombian-Ranisian-Jerzmanowician culture were present in central and northwestern Europe long before the extinction of Neanderthals in southwestern Europe. Th...
https://www.sci.news/archaeology/lincombian-ranisian-jerzmanowician-homo-sapiens-12648.html
A Brazilian anthropologist has reconstructed the face of the archaic human species Homo longi from a well-preserved skull discovered in northeastern China in the 1930s. The post Face of Homo lo...
https://www.sci.news/othersciences/anthropology/homo-longi-face-12609.html
Gigantopithecus blacki, the largest ever primate and one of the largest species of the southeast Asian megafauna, persisted in China from about 2 million years until the Middle Pleistocene when...
https://www.sci.news/paleontology/gigantopithecus-blacki-extinction-12599.html
The new-submerged Northwest Shelf of Sahul was a vast area of land in the Late Pleistocene epoch that connected the Australian regions of the Kimberley and western Arnhem Land during times of low...
When the ancestors of modern Eurasians migrated out of Africa and interbred with Eurasian archaic hominins, DNA of archaic ancestry integrated into the genomes of anatomically modern Homo sapiens...
https://www.sci.news/genetics/neanderthal-early-risers-12532.html
Archaeologists have recently learned that around 125,000 years ago, hunting of straight-tusked elephants (Palaeoloxodon antiquus) was part of the Neanderthal behavioral repertoire. The post Str...
https://www.sci.news/archaeology/neanderthal-straight-tusked-elephant-exploitation-12513.html
Archaeologists have found cut marks on the bones of two beaver species from the 400,000-year-old hominin open air site of Bilzingsleben in central Germany. The post Hominins Hunted Beavers At L...
https://www.sci.news/archaeology/hominin-beaver-diet-12493.html
Archaeologists have analyzed the ancient animal remains from Ghar-e Boof, a Middle Paleolithic site in the southern Zagros of Iran that was occupied between 81,000 to 45,000 years ago. The post...
https://www.sci.news/archaeology/middle-paleolithic-human-diet-12490.html
Paleoanthropologists have reconstructed the face of a Neanderthal man whose 56,000-year-old remains were found at La Chapelle-aux-Saints in south-central France. The post Scientists Reconstruct...
In new research, scientists from the University of East Anglia and elsewhere studied 874 speakers of 29 different languages, including English, Spanish, Norwegian, Japanese, Mandarin, Tzeltal and...
https://www.sci.news/othersciences/linguistics/spatial-demonstratives-12414.html
In a new study, scientists sequenced and analyzed the genomes of two 36,000-37,000-year-old individuals from the site of Buran-Kaya III in Crimea, Ukraine. The post 36,500-Year-Old Human Genome...
https://www.sci.news/genetics/buran-kaya-iii-crimea-ukraine-genomes-12380.html
Approximately 6% of the Altai Neanderthal genome was inherited from an ancient lineage of anatomically modern Homo sapiens that migrated from Africa to Eurasia over 250,000 years ago. The post ...
Pierolapithecus catalaunicus is an extinct species of great ape that lived in what is now Europe about 12 million years ago. The post Scientists Reconstruct Skull of Pierolapithecus catalaunicu...
https://www.sci.news/paleontology/pierolapithecus-catalaunicus-skull-12364.html
Anthropologists in Greece have used facial reconstruction techniques to show how Homo heidelbergensis might have once looked. The post Anthropologists Reconstruct Face of Homo heidelbergensis ...