Homo naledi May Have Made Tools, Buried Dead, Lived Alongside Humans
A couple weeks ago, I introduced that H. naledi may be much younger than we thought it was. Razib’s recent post points out three new …
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The Convergence of Ecology & Selection for the Domestication of the Horse
Two new recent studies have been published which attempt to pinpoint the how and why of prehistoric horse domestication in …
Ancient Human DNA Extracted From Ice Age Caves Without Human Remains
Ancient DNA has come a long way, baby. We now don’t even need the bones any more to pick up …
Homo naledi Could Be Much Younger Than Previous Thought
Homo naledi, the mosaic of archaic and modern human, whose discovery two years ago was published in the journal Elife was touted to …
Incredible New Evidence for Peopling of the Americas 130,000 Years Ago
It is pretty well agreed that Homo sapiens spread out of Africa about 100,000 years ago and traveled across Asia about 60,000 …
Untangling The Ancient Khipu Code Of Strings
Last week in Current Anthropology, University of St. Andrews anthropologist Sabine Hyland, published, “Writing with Twisted Cords: The Inscriptive Capacity …
An Auditory Reconstruction of the 6,000 Year Old Proto-Indo-European Language
Have you ever wondered what language sounded like in the past? In the mid-19th century, actually 1868, German linguist, August Schleicher, …
The Hobbit: A Homo habilis Lineage?
When the 3 and 1/2 foot Homo floresiensis was discovered and the age of the new species correlated with the …
Interpreting Paleolithic Funerary Rites from Broken Ochred Pebbles
Claudine Gravel-Miguel, archaeology doctoral student at the School of Human Evolution and Social Change, Arizona State University, research has taken …
The Cardiac Health of the Tsimane
A lot of discussion is constantly had about what is the healthiest diet; low fat or low carb. An interesting …
