Beyond bones & stones
A study published today in the journal Nature analyzed more than 7,200 stone tools from middle Paleolithic Attirampakkam creekside site in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu. Archaeologists from the Sharma Centre for Heritage Education have been unearthing these tools for the last 20 years from the site. There aren't any human remains, yet,... Continue Reading →
As mentioned yesterday, Jebel Irhoud documents an early African Homo sapiens. The specimen represents mixture of archaic and modern features, such as an elongated braincase compared to the face and teeth, respectively. In a new paper published in Science Advances, researchers Simon Neubauer, Jean-Jacques Hublin and Philipp Gunz used CT scans to create virtual endocasts... Continue Reading →
A paper published Science reports an interesting date of a human fossil from the Misliya Cave, a cave tucked in the western slopes of Mount Carmel in Israel. Using three different independent dating methods, Israel Hershkovitz of Tel Aviv University and his colleagues, dated this fossil upper jaw to between 177,000 and 194,000 years ago.... Continue Reading →
At a site known today as the Upward Sun River, near the Tanana River Valley in Central Alaska, Ben Potter of the University of Alaska Fairbanks unearthed the cremated remains of a 3-year-old child in 2010. About a meter deep, and three years later, two infants were found buried in a circular pit filled with grave goods... Continue Reading →
