The “Hobbit” at 150
- 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
A shocking discovery made a decade and a half ago is changing our understanding of human evolution
According to a BBC News report, analysis of DNA recovered from a 50,000-year-old bone fragment unearthed in Russia’s Denisova Cave suggests that it belonged to a teenage girl who had a Neanderthal mother and a Denisovan father.
Dozens of prehistoric hominin footprints have been discovered in Norfolk and have been dated back to nearly one million years old. These are the oldest footprints ever discovered outside of Africa and could change the timeline of when the earliest human species migrated out of Africa and into Europe. The study comes from a collaboration of British research facilities and the results were published on PLOS ONE.