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Axeheads made out of Alpine rocks had strong social and economic symbolic meaning in the Neolithic, given their production and use value. Their resistance to friction and breakage, which permitted intense polishing and a...
By Victoria Gibbon, University of Cape Town This story begins with an archive audit at the University of Cape Town’s department of human biology. The audit reveals the remains of 11 human skeletons that...
Invisible footprints hiding since the end of the last ice age – and what lies beneath them – have been discovered by Cornell University researchers using a type of radar in a novel way....
In terms of their body plan, Old World monkeys—a group that includes primates like baboons and macaques—are generally considered more similar to ancestral species than apes are. But a new study that analyzes the...
Growing up in Israel, Gili Greenbaum would give tours of local caves once inhabited by Neanderthals and wonder why our distant cousins abruptly disappeared about 40,000 years ago. Now a scientist at Stanford, Greenbaum...
By Adam Taylor, Lancaster University and Rebecca Shepherd, Lancaster University Bones are amazing. People are often surprised to learn that bone is a living tissue. It is widely understood that our bones have the...
By Tim Thompson, Teesside University and Rebecca Gowland, Durham University The dead are never really gone. In archaeology and the forensic sciences, that’s quite literally true. Though people tend to think that mortal remains...
By Sonja Eliason, University of Cambridge and Bridget Alex, California State University, Long Beach One of civilization’s most prolific killers shadowed humans for thousands of years without their knowledge. The bacteria Yersinia pestis, which...
Eagle talons are often regarded as the earliest items used to make jewellery by Neanderthals, a practice seemingly common in Southern Europe between 120,000 and 40,000 years ago. Now, for the first time, researchers...
Researchers have described a new species of fossil ape dating back 11.6 million years and suggest a new form of locomotion they call “extended limb clambering”. The research is published in the journal Nature....
Who exactly were the Aurignacians, who lived in the Levant 40,000 years ago? Researchers from Tel Aviv University, the Israel Antiquities Authority, and Ben-Gurion University now report that these culturally sophisticated, yet mysterious, humans...
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Fossil teeth fill 6-million-year-old gap in primate evolution
16 May, 2019
