An international team of researchers has used innovative ecological modeling techniques to identify, for the first time, the possible geographical areas where Neanderthals and anatomically modern humans might have encountered and interbred tens of thousands of years ago. The study, recently published in the journal Scientific Reports, highlights the crucial role played by certain geographical […]
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Archaeologists Reveal How Early Humans Entered the Pacific
An international team of researchers has made a finding that sheds new light on the expansion of modern humans towards the Pacific. Archaeological excavations in the Mololo cave, located in the Raja Ampat islands of Indonesia, have provided evidence of human occupation dating back more than 55,000 years, making it the oldest known site in […]
Archaeologists Found Evidence in Ethiopia of a Human Population that Survived the Eruption of the Toba Supervolcano 74,000 years Ago
Modern humans first originated in Africa, but the key event that led to their global expansion occurred less than 100,000 years ago. Previous research had suggested these early human dispersals were limited to “green corridors” – regions with abundant food resources during wet climate intervals. However, a new study published in the journal Nature proposes […]
Earliest Known Human Settlement in Europe Discovered in Ukraine
New findings from an international team led by Roman Garba from the Nuclear Physics Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences have confirmed that the oldest known human occupation in Europe occurred 1.4 million years ago near the town of Korolevo in western Ukraine. Until now, the earliest inhabited site in Europe was thought to […]
How did Humans Learn to Walk? Researchers Discover Cold Was Key
Have you ever wondered how humans evolved from walking on all fours to walking upright on two legs? A new study of a 6-million-year-old ape fossil is providing important clues about the origins of human bipedalism. Us and our closest relatives, apes, show a diversity of ways of getting around – from walking upright to […]
Legends of the Hadza People are so Ancient that they May Refer to Extinct Hominid Ancestors
The Hadza people are an ethnic group living around Lake Eyasi in the Great Rift Valley and near the Serengeti plain in Tanzania, in an area called Hadzaland. In 2015, there were between 1,200 and 1,300 individuals, with only about 300 of them, a small group, still surviving, dedicated exclusively to hunting and gathering. This […]
Early Paleolithic humans ate roasted tortoises, among other things
Recent archaeological discoveries are providing new insights into what early humans ate thousands of years ago. Scientists have found evidence that Middle Paleolithic humans, who lived between 81,000-45,000 years ago, had a more varied diet than previously thought. Analysis of a site in the Zagros Mountains of Iran reveals they hunted not just large grazing […]