Two-million-year-old skull of human ‘cousin’ unearthed0
- Ancient Archeology, From Around the Web
- November 10, 2020
Australian researchers say the discovery of a two-million-year-old skull in South Africa throws more light on human evolution.
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Archaeologists reveal human resilience in the face of climate change in ancient Turkey0
- Ancient Archeology, From Around the Web
- November 4, 2020
An examination of two documented periods of climate change in the greater Middle East, between approximately 4,500 and 3,000 years ago, reveals local evidence of resilience and even of a flourishing ancient society despite the changes in climate seen in the larger region.
War in the time of Neanderthals: how our species battled for supremacy for over 100,000 years0
- Ancient Archeology, From Around the Web
- November 4, 2020
Around 600,000 years ago, humanity split in two. One group stayed in Africa, evolving into us. The other struck out overland, into Asia, then Europe, becoming Homo neanderthalensis – the Neanderthals. They weren’t our ancestors, but a sister species, evolving in parallel.
Scientists Sequence Y Chromosome DNA of Denisovans and Neanderthals0
- Ancient Archeology, From Around the Web
- September 29, 2020
The genomes of our closest relatives, Neanderthals and Denisovans, have been sequenced and compared with that of modern humans. However, most archaic individuals with high-quality sequences available have been female. In new research, a team of geneticists from the United States, China and Europe has sequenced the paternally inherited Y chromosomes from three Neanderthals and two Denisovans; comparisons with archaic and modern human Y chromosomes indicated that, similar to the maternally inherited mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA), the human and Neanderthal Y chromosomes were more closely related to each other compared with the Denisovan Y chromosome; this result supports the conclusion that interbreeding between early Homo sapiens and Neanderthals replaced the more ancient Denisovian-like Y chromosome and mitochondria in Neanderthals.
These 120,000-year-old footprints offer early evidence for humans in Arabia0
- Ancient Archeology, From Around the Web
- September 18, 2020
One day about 120,000 years ago, a few humans wandered along the shore of an ancient lake in what is now the Nefud Desert in Saudi Arabia. They may have paused for a drink of fresh water or to track herds of elephants, wild asses, and camels that were trampling the mudflats. Within hours of passing through, the humans’ and animals’ footprints dried out and eventually fossilized.
When did we become fully human? What fossils and DNA tell us about the evolution of modern intelligence0
- Ancient Archeology, From Around the Web
- September 12, 2020
When did something like us first appear on the planet? It turns out there’s remarkably little agreement on this question.
How Scientists Discovered the Staggering Complexity of Human Evolution0
- Ancient Archeology, From Around the Web
- September 11, 2020
Darwin would be delighted by the story his successors have revealed
When did humans discover how to use fire?0
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- August 11, 2020
The answer is hotly contested.
Mystery ancestor mated with ancient humans. And its ‘nested’ DNA was just found.0
- Ancient Archeology, From Around the Web
- August 11, 2020
Today’s humans carry the genes of an ancient, unknown ancestor, left there by hominin species intermingling perhaps a million years ago.
Cryptic 30,000-year-old burial cave reveals special afterlife treatment, long before the Egyptians0
- Ancient Archeology, From Around the Web
- June 25, 2020
Funeral rites emerged at the dawn of humanity. Rituals involved in the passage into the afterlife and proper care of the dead have always been sacred, but the reasons behind many funerary practices remain buried in time.
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