Neanderthals Deliberately Used Manganese To Start Fires
Scientists from Leiden University and Delft University of Technology conducted compositional sediment analyses of a 50,000 year old Neanderthal site, …
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Flores’ Hobbits Aren’t Homo sapiens
There have been great debates about the lineage of Homo floresiensis. A new unpublished study in the Journal of Human …
The Role of Technology & Culture On Human Evolution
Blombos Cave is an important site discovered in the ’90’s. It is about 300 km east of Cape Town, South …
Ötzi’s Got The Oldest Known Tattoos
Tattoos are becoming ubiquitous. The art of tattooing is ancient, but when it began is unknown. Written records date the …
Humans Sleep More Efficiently Compared To Other Primates
Researchers from Duke University have published a paper in the journal Evolutionary Anthropology. They scoured the scientific literature and compiled …
300,000 Year Old Wood Tools from Schöningen
A series of detailed reports on the Paleolithic site of Schöningen in north-central Germany which is best known for the …
3.3 Million Year Old Stone Tools Predate Homo By 500,000 Years
149 stone flakes, hammers and anvils, found off at the Lomekwi 3 site on the shores of Lake Turkana, appears …
Megafloods and the Collapse of Cahokia
My first understanding of Cahokia and pre-Columbian cities of the Americas came from the book 1491. Between 1050 and 1200 …
Were Protoaurignacian’s Modern Humans or Neandertals?
Many cultures existed in Europe about 40-45,000 years ago. About 42,000 years ago, in southern Europe, the Protoaurignacian developed and …
One of Lucy’s Vertebrae is a Baboon’s?
Well this is kind of embarrassing but inconsequential… Gary Sawyer and Mike Smith at the AMNH began a reconstruction of …
