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Oldest ground stone tool found in Arnhem Land
The oldest ground-edge stone tool in the world has been discovered in Northern Australia by a Monash University researcher and a team of international experts. Evidence for stone tool-use among our...
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Our 20 million-year-old ancestor
A combined team of Ugandan and French scientists discovered the partial skull of a tree-climbing ape dated to around 20 million years ago in Uganda’s Karamoja region. Dr. Martin Pickford displays a...
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Early hominid diets: Challenged by new technologies
Researchers from the University of Colorado Boulder and the University of Arkansas have challenged long held assumptions on the diets of early hominids using the latest hi-tech tools available today....
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River bank life of Early Humans
Many people conjure up images of our earliest human ancestors living in the hot dried out dusty environments where many of their remains have been found. Unfortunately, such images don’t take into...
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Dental calculus provides surprise in early hominin diet
Australopithecus sediba, believed to be an early relative of modern-day humans, enjoyed a diet of leaves, fruits, nuts, and bark, which meant they probably lived in a more wooded environment than is...
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Denisovian Gene sequence offers insight into our own past
In 2010, Svante Pääbo and his colleagues from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, in Leipzig presented a draft version of the genome from a small fragment of a human finger bone...
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One happy family: Dmanisi cave controversy
New skull find at Dmanisi in Georgia seems to show that everything living 1.8 million years ago was probably Homo erectusThe post One happy family: Dmanisi cave controversy appeared first on...
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