ancient humans

“Cosmic Fire” –1st Evidence of a Comet Destroying Prehistoric Human Settlement 0
- Ancient Archeology, From Around the Web
- March 11, 2020
“Our new discoveries represent much more powerful evidence for very high temperatures that could only be associated with a cosmic impact. To help with perspective, such high temperatures would completely melt an automobile in less than a minute,” said James Kennett, a UC Santa Barbara emeritus professor of geology, who with his colleagues first reported evidence of an event in 2012 of the direct effects of a fragmented comet on a human settlement. Such intensity, he added, could only have resulted from an extremely violent, high-energy, high-velocity phenomenon, something on the order of a cosmic impact.

By David Aragorn
Scientists find evidence of ‘ghost population’ of ancient humans 0
- Ancient Archeology, From Around the Web
- February 14, 2020
Traces of unknown ancestor emerged when researchers analysed genomes from west African populations

By David Aragorn
Scientists Find the Oldest Human Skull Outside of Africa 0
- Ancient Archeology, From Around the Web
- January 7, 2020
A scrap of skull collected in 1978 and stored for decades in an Athens museum may rewrite the timeline of when Homo sapiens left our ancestral African homeland.

By David Aragorn
First human ancestors to leave Africa died out in Java, scientists say 0
- Ancient Archeology, From Around the Web
- December 21, 2019
Dating of bones from Indonesia confirm Homo erectus roamed planet for 1.8m years

By David Aragorn
DNA from 5,700-year-old ‘gum’ shows what one ancient woman may have looked like 0
- Ancient Archeology, From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- December 19, 2019
Chewed birch pitch could be an overlooked source of ancient genetic material, researchers say

By David Aragorn
A gene tied to facial development hints humans domesticated themselves 0
- Ancient Archeology, From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- December 7, 2019
Called BAZ1B, it may also help explain why domesticated animals look cuter than their wild kin

By David Aragorn
Bad luck may have caused Neanderthals’ extinction – study 0
- Ancient Archeology, From Around the Web
- November 29, 2019
Homo sapien invasion may not have prompted Neanderthals’ demise 40,000 years ago

By David Aragorn
Were other humans the first victims of the sixth mass extinction?0
- Ancient Archeology, From Around the Web
- November 23, 2019
Nine human species walked the Earth 300,000 years ago. Now there is just one. The Neanderthals, Homo neanderthalensis, were stocky hunters adapted to Europe’s cold steppes. The related Denisovans inhabited Asia, while the more primitive Homo erectus lived in Indonesia, and Homo rhodesiensis in central Africa.

By David Aragorn
The “Hobbit” at 15 0
- Ancient Archeology, Earth Mysteries, From Around the Web
- November 23, 2019
A shocking discovery made a decade and a half ago is changing our understanding of human evolution

By David Aragorn
Scientists now have evidence the evolutionary birthplace of human kind was in northern Botswana 0
- Ancient Archeology, From Around the Web
- November 1, 2019
Where was the evolutionary birthplace of modern humans? The East African Great Rift Valley has long been the favored contender – until today.

By David Aragorn