1.4-Million-Year-Old Skull Fragments Linked to Mystery Human Ancestor
The fragmentary facial bones belong to Homo affinis erectus, an esoteric offshoot of our family tree that inhabited Spain ...
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1.4 million-year-old cheekbones of mysterious human relative rewrite history
The Spanish team says the latest remains are more primitive than Homo antecessor but bear a resemblance to Homo erectus.
Archaeologists in stunning discovery of 250,000-year-old human in remote African cave
Professor Lee Berger, the project's leader and Director of the Centre for Exploration of the Deep Human Journey at Wits ...
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Discovery of oldest human bones ever re-writes story of human evolution in Europe
Some of the eldest bones ever discovered could reconstruct our understanding of mankind's history – the find 'introduces a ...
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1.4-Million-Year-Old Human Face Is Oldest In Western Europe
The oldest hominid facial bones ever discovered in Western Europe have revealed that the region was initially inhabited by a ...
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Inside the hunt for ‘Britain’s Atlantis’ lost to sea 10,000 years ago where secret civilisations once lived
The people who once lived there retreated to the mainland, building communities on the East Anglian coasts where fossilised hominin footprints ... North Sea. The hominid communities that once ...
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Archaeologists discover humanity’s first knives, carved from bone 1.5 million years ago
These are humanity’s first knives, says the 48-year-old CSIC researcher. Until now, the oldest known bone tools were from half a million years ago and had been found in Europe and Asia. This new ...
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Evidence for Meat-Eating by Early Humans
M., Percussion marks on bone surfaces as a new diagnostic of hominid behavior. Nature 333, 763-765 (1988). Blumenschine, R. J. et al. Vertebrate taphonomic perspectives on Oldowan hominin land-use ...