Homo naledi: The Star Man Rewriting Our Origins
Discovered in 2013 in a nearly inaccessible cave in South Africa, Homo naledi combines a primitive australopith-sized brain with almost mod…
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From 3 million years ago to the dawn of our era: archaeological discoveries, palaeogenetics, cave art and the great transformations of human societies.
Discovered in 2013 in a nearly inaccessible cave in South Africa, Homo naledi combines a primitive australopith-sized brain with almost mod…
Read →New cosmogenic nuclide burial dating places the Yunxian fossil skulls (Hubei, China) at 1.77 million years, some 700,000 years older than p…
Read →A proteomic analysis of dental enamel from 20 <em>Homo naledi</em> individuals detected no male markers whatsoever. All fossils from Rising…
Read →Excavations at Gran Dolina cave in Atapuerca have uncovered a bone from a two-to-four-year-old child bearing a butchery cut mark. Direct ev…
Read →A giant skull from China, a mandible from the Tibetan plateau, and a novel epigenetic method: how scientists reconstructed the face of our …
Read →A cave sealed for 300,000 years near Fureidis, at the foot of Mount Carmel, reveals a hominin clan from the mysterious Acheulo-Yabrudian cu…
Read →The deformed skull of a prehistoric girl, unearthed in Spain, bears the mark of a rare malformation. That she lived to 8 or 10 suggests her…
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