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Australopithecus africanus Had Similar Dental Issues As Us

March 3, 2018

Ian Towle of John Moores University and colleagues published an interesting paper in the International Journal of Paleopathology that illuminates …

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13,000 Year Old Tooth Filling Are The Oldest Evidence Of Dentistry Known

April 8, 2017

A pair of 13,000-year-old incisors found contain the earliest known use of fillings – made out of bitumen, or asphalt/cement. …

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The Resilience of The Awá Against Modernity

September 12, 2016

Over at the Washington Post, there’s an interesting article documenting how two Amazonian Awá tribeswomen have escaped the modern life …

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Earliest Evidence of Warfare

January 23, 2016

Researchers from the University of Cambridge Leverhulme Center for Human Evolutionary Studies have published the findings of the remains of …

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Abstract Chauvet Cave Painting Represent A 36,000 Year Old Volcano

January 11, 2016

A team of French geologists and paleontologists and led by Jean-Michel Geneste, published in PLoS One that they believe that they have …

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6,000 Year Old Death Pit Indicates Some Neolithic People Weren’t So Egalitarian

December 12, 2015

Circular burial pits like the one shown above were common during the Neolithic period in Central and Western Europe some …

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Say Hello to Australopithecus deyiremeda, A Newly Discovered 3.4 Million Year Old Hominid

May 28, 2015

A study published in Nature today announces the 2011 discovery of Australopithecus deyiremeda a hominid that lived between 3.3 and 3.5 …

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A Neandertal Ancestor for a Early European

May 15, 2015

At last week’s Biology of Genomes meeting in Cold Spring Harbor, New York, Qiaomei Fu, a palaeogenomicist at Harvard Medical …

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Neandertal Post-Mortem Modification

April 14, 2015

A study published in the American Journal of Physical Anthropology has for the first time analysed the fragments of three …

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130,000 Year Old Eagle Claw Jewelry From Krapina Neandertals

March 11, 2015

Krapina Neandertals may have manipulated white-tailed eagle talons to make jewelry 130,000 years ago, before the appearance of modern human …

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