“The remains were recovered by a team of women archaeologists who small and lithe enough to wriggle through a maze of extremely narrow cave passages. “
Some Homo naledi news
A new, ‘bureaucratised’ hominin – Homo bodoensis
“A new, simplified model for the evolution of the genus Homo over the last 2 million years Credit: Roksandic “
Earliest Americans and Denisovan art
Footprints thought to have been made by children and teenagers between 23 and 21 thousand years ago in lake shore muds at White Sands, New Mexico. (Credit Bennett et al. 2021)
Anthropocene more an Event than an Epoch.
The Vattenfall lignite mine in Germany; the Anthropocene personified
‘Dragon Man’ may “rewrite major elements of human evolution”
Scientists believe the cranium came from a male individual, approximately 50 years old, living in a forested, floodplain environment as part of a small community.
The Huntress Of The Andes #ChooseToChallenge
The sample was sufficient to “warrant the conclusion that female participation in early big-game hunting was likely nontrivial,” researchers said
The ancestry of our opposable thumbs
“The first makers of sophisticated stone tools must have been able to grip between fingers and thumb to manipulate the materials from which they were made”
The Huntress Of The Andes
The sample was sufficient to “warrant the conclusion that female participation in early big-game hunting was likely nontrivial,” researchers said
Severe COVID-19 associated with Neanderthal inheritance?
“Neanderthals were tough, survivors of several hundred thousand years of climatic extremes hunting fearsome prey, and they probably had an intellect as advanced as that of the AMH with whom they mingled. “
Did early humans learn to cook in Olduvai Gorge?
“How did what seems to be a ‘golden spike’ in human culture first take material form in Olduvai?”
