The latest archaeology and anthropology research
Four fossilized monkey teeth discovered in the Peruvian Amazon provide new evidence that more than one group of ancient primates journeyed across the Atlantic Ocean from Africa, according to new research published in the...
Griffith University scientists have led an international team to date the skull of a hominin (human relatives and ancestors) fossil found in Africa. The research is published in the journal Nature. The Broken Hill...
Over 80,000 years ago, Neanderthals were already feeding themselves regularly on mussels, fish and other marine life. The first robust evidence of this has been found by an international during an excavation in the...
A new study, published in PNAS, has found evidence that human ancestors as recent as two million years ago may have regularly climbed trees. Walking on two legs has long been a defining feature...
A partial skeleton of Homo naledi represents a rare case of an immature individual, shedding light on the evolution of growth and development in human ancestry, according to a study published in the journal PLOS...
Genetic information from an 800,000-year-old hominin (human relatives and ancestors) fossil has been retrieved for the first time. The results shed light on one of the branching points in the human family tree, reaching...
By Tanya M. Smith, Griffith University; Philipp Gunz, and Zeray Alemseged, University of Chicago Within our extended primate family consisting of lemurs, monkeys, and apes, humans have the largest brains. Our closest living relatives,...
By Stephanie Baker, University of Johannesburg; Angeline Leece; Jesse Martin, La Trobe University; Matthew Caruana, University of Johannesburg; Prof. Andy I.R. Herries, La Trobe University, and Renaud Joannes-Boyau, Southern Cross University The human evolutionary...
By João Teixeira, University of Adelaide Around 55,000-50,000 years ago, a population of modern humans left Africa and started on the long trek that would lead them around the world. After rapidly crossing Eurasia...
Sometimes it is impossible to establish the identity of a victim because their sex cannot be recognised. In her PhD research, Mandan has developed a way to accurately identify the sex of someone by...
By Ian Moffat, Flinders University If you bumped into a Homo erectus in the street you might not recognise them as being very different from you. You’d see a certain “human-ness” in the stance,...
