Modern Humans Reached Westernmost Europe 5,000 Years Earlier Than Previously Known
Modern humans arrived in the westernmost part of Europe 41,000 - 38,000 years ago, about 5,000 years earlier than previously known, according to Jonathan Haws, Ph.D., professor and chair of the Department of Anthropology at the University of Louisville, and an international team of researchers.
New Funerary & Ritual Behaviors of the Neolithic Iberian Populations Discovered
Experts from the Department of Prehistory and Archaeology of the University of Seville have just published a study in the prestigious journal PLOS ONE on an important archaeological find in the Cueva de la Dehesilla (Cádiz).
Ancient Human Footprints in Saudi Arabia Give Glimpse of Arabian Ecology 120000 Years Ago
Situated between Africa and Eurasia, the Arabian Peninsula is an important yet understudied region for understanding human evolution across the continents.
A 48,000 Years Old Tooth Belonging to one of the Last Neanderthals in Northern Italy
A milk-tooth found in the vicinity of "Riparo del Broion" on the Berici Hills in the Veneto region bears evidence of one of the last Neanderthals in Italy.
Oldest Remains of Neanderthals Discovered in Central Europe
The results of a study from Stajnia Cave in Poland have revealed the oldest remains of Neanderthals in Central Europe.
Stajnia Cave is located north...
New Study of Molar Size Regulation in Hominins
The molar size relationship is one of the peculiar characteristics of the different species of hominins and various theories have been proposed to account for this, as well as the differences in shape between the different kinds of teeth (incisors, canines, premolars and molars).
Does the Culture-of-Death Predate the Neanderthals and Modern Humans?
All societies existing today possess some kind of funerary culture, and this is one of the behaviors that takes us closest to how complex the human mind is.
Researchers Use Fossilised Teeth to Reveal Dietary Shifts in Ancient Herbivores and Hominins
A new study documents dietary shifts in herbivores that lived between 1-3 million years ago in Ethiopia's Lower Omo Valley.
Curious Kids: How did the First Person Evolve?
We know humans haven’t always been around. After all, we wouldn’t have survived alongside meat-eating dinosaurs like Tyrannosaurus rex.
Amud 9 is Shown to be a Neandertal Woman Weighing 60 kg Who Lived in the Late Pleistocene
Adrián Pablos, a scientist at the Centro Nacional de Investigación sobre la Evolución Humana (CENIEH), co-leads a paper looking at the morphology and anatomy of a partial foot recovered over 25 years ago at Amud Cave (Israel), which confirms that the individual Amud 9 was a Neandertal woman from the Late Pleistocene, with a stature of some 160-166 cm and weight of 60 kg.
New data supports the theory of Neanderthal’s low genetic diversity as the main cause for their extinction
What caused the disappearance of the Homo Neanderthalensis, a species that seemingly had as many capabilities as the Homo Sapiens?
Homo Sapiens caused Neanderthal extinction according to computer models
Using computer models, climate scientists from the IBS Centre suggests that Homo Sapiens are responsible for the demise of the Neanderthal between 43-38 thousand years ago.
Development of teeth enables sex from fossil site to be estimated
An analysis of 32 dental pieces from Sima de los Huesos in Spain, has enabled researchers to estimate the sex of 15 individuals.
Fossils show that early ancestors had dual hand use
A new study by anthropologists at the University of Kent has identified that hand use behaviour in the fossils of our early ancestors is consistent with modern humans.
Earliest European Upper Palaeolithic Homo Sapiens
Two new studies on the homo sapien fossils found at the Bacho Kiro Cave in Bulgaria provides evidence for the first dispersal of H. sapiens across the mid-latitudes of Eurasia.
