As reported in the science journal Nature, modern humans must have left their African homeland and migrated eastward to southern China at least 80,000 years ago. This contrasts with the date that our ancestors are known to… READ FULL ARTICLE
Every once in a while a new discovery in anthropology is so exciting it fires imaginations far beyond the halls of science. The discovery of Homo naledi is one of those times. Wits University announced the… READ FULL ARTICLE
Purdue University. “New instrument dates old skeleton before ‘Lucy’; ‘Little Foot’ 3.67 million years old.” ScienceDaily. ScienceDaily, 1 April 2015. <www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/04/150401133228.htm> A skeleton named Little Foot is among the oldest hominid skeletons ever dated at… READ FULL ARTICLE
Please click here to read the entire Science Daily article. For decades, scientists have been searching for African fossils documenting the earliest phases of the Homo lineage, but specimens recovered from the critical time interval between 3… READ FULL ARTICLE
To read the comp;ete story,please go to: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/06/11/otzi-iceman-head-blow-death-mummy-brain-tissue_n_3418652.html?utm_hp_ref=archaeology Ötzi the Iceman, Europe’s oldest mummy, likely suffered a head injury before he died roughly 5,300 years ago, according to a new protein analysis of his brain… READ FULL ARTICLE