A probable Denisovan molar from 164 to 131 ka old cave sediments in northern Laos. (credit: Demeter, et al.; Fig. 2)
Wider traces of the elusive Denisovans
Where to place your hearth
New research from Tel Aviv University has been revealing that the earliest humans were working out where the best place was to situate the hearth
Some Homo naledi news
“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. “
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)
Opportunities for anatomically modern humans to have left Africa
Key ages of early H. sapiens, Neanderthals and Denisovans (image credit: Delson, 2019; Fig. 1)
Massive hominin skull from China: is it a Denisovan?
“In 1933 labourers unearthed a very large skull during the construction of a bridge near Harbin, Northern China.”
Relationships between modern humans and Neanderthals
The likely appearances of Neanderthals and anatomically modern humans when they first met between 50 and 40 thousand years ago. (Credit: Jason Ford, New York University)
Early Humans: The Low-Flow Model & the Advantages of a Big Nose
Something changed over the course of human evolution that reduced the amount of water our body uses each day to stay healthy.
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”
