The Last Homo erectus
Last week, in Nature, University of Iowa anthropologist Russell Ciochon and colleagues published new dates on fossils and sediment layers …
Author Archives: Kambiz Kamrani
5,700 Year Old Chewing Gum Reveals Insights On Prehistoric Hunter-Gatherer Life in Denmark
Theis Jensen, a bioarchaeologist at the University of Copenhagen, and colleagues, published a report in Nature Communications about a the …
A 43,900-year-old Cave Painting in Sulawesi, Indonesia is the Oldest Hunting Story Depicted
Archaeologist Maxime Aubert, from Griffith University and his colleagues have published, in Nature, the discovery of the oldest depicted hunting …
80,000 Year Old Le Rozel footprints in Normandy Represent Neanderthal Social Structure
Since 2012, Jeremy Duveau of France’s National Museum of Natural History and his colleagues have been excavating the Le Rozel …
The Discovery of a 3.8 Million Year Old Australopithecus anamensis
The discovery of a mostly intact a 3.8 million year old fossil skull found buried within sandstone, from the Waranjo-Mille …
Apidima 1 – A New Look At Old Skull
In the 1970’s, the Apidima Cave site in Greece was excavated by archaeologists. Lodged within a chunk of rock was …
Seven Million Years of Human Evolution
This fascinating visual presentation from the American Museum of Natural History outlines what we know about human evolution by combining …
How did the Eastern Island Maoi Get 13-Ton Hats
One of my interests in the peopling of the Americas are the Easter Island maoi statues made by the Rapanui …
Wars Explain the post-Neolithic Y-chromosome bottleneck
A new paper in Nature Communications documents a strange bottleneck event occurring about 7,000 years ago, where the genetic diversity …
The Presence of the Frontal Opercula in Homo naledi
When it comes to the evolution of the human brain, size isn’t everything. In fact, shape is a huge determinant. …
