Prehistoric Projectiles Potentially Pushed Back
In a recent article at PLOS ONE (November 13, 2013), researchers describe hafted projectile points found in Ethiopia that date to approximately 279,000 years ago. […]
paleoanthropology
Getting there is half the fun: Early Homo
The Pliocene-Pleistocene boundary presents a period of transformation in human evolution. This is a period after which it is clear that early humans are using […]
The Effect of Ardipithecus ramidus on Agnopithecus creationus
Image by Mike Licht, NotionsCapital.com via Flickr There were a stream of posts on the anthropology blogs about Ardipithecus ramidus, the 4.4 million year old […]
I Love Lucy!
Australopithecus Afarensis skeleton was discovered in 1974 near Hadar in Ethiopia, and she was nicknamed “Lucy” by the paleoanthropologists who found her. As the story […]
The First Americans Were Immigrants of Two Populations
The most recent online issue of Current Biology has an article describing the research which reveals evidence that the first Americans immigrated via two distinct […]
Neanderthals were not stupid
It has long been thought that one of the reason Homo sapiens eventually dominated the hominid line, colonizing Africa and Europe beginning at around 40,000 […]
Cavemen Liked Big Butts and They Cannot Lie
Acouple of online editions of U.K. newspapers reported the recent finds of 30 carvings recovered at an archaeological site in Poland, dating to about 15,000 […]
10 Million Year Old Ape Found in Ethiopia
Not alive. I just wanted to clarify that first. But the fossil remains of what is being dubbed Chororapithecus abyssinicus by the Ethiopian-Japanese team that […]
Iceman Bled to Death on Glacier – Killed by Arrow
At least that’s the title I should have used on March 20, 2007 when I scooped the BBC, the LA Times, National Geographic and other […]
Paleoanthropology: Multiregional versus Replacement
The multiregional evolution hypothesis asserts that modern humans are the present manifestation of older species of hominids including Homo neanderthalensis and H. erectus. The replacement […]