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Ancient Tajikistan Rock Shelter Sheds Light on 130,000-Year-Old Human Migration
A newly discovered rock shelter in Tajikistan’s Zeravshan Valley shows evidence of repeated human occupation over 130,000 years. The site contains artifacts from Neanderthals, Denisovans, and Homo sapiens, suggesting it may have been a migration hub. Archaeologists believe the Inner Asian Mountain Corridor (IAMC) in Central Asia served as a migra...
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Early Humans Reached Asia Sooner Than Imagined, Fossil Discovery Shows
Archaeologists believe that our earliest ancestors most likely travelled coastlines and islands through southeast Asia towards Australia, roughly 50,000-60,000 years ago.
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Fossilised Face of Oldest Human to Have Lived in Europe Unearthed in Spain
A team of paleoanthropologists have unearthed a human fossil that is estimated to be around 1.4 million years old. The fossil was found at the Sima del Elefante archaeological site in Spain during excavations on June 30. Before this, the human fossils found from level 9 or TE9 of the site in 2007 were the oldest. They belonged to two individuals wh...
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Child's Tooth, 1,30,000 Years Old, Offers Clues To Ancient Human Relative
A child's tooth at least 130,000 years old found in a Laos cave could help scientists uncover more information about an early human cousin, a study said on Tuesday.
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Bones of 'New Type of Early Human' Found in Israel, May Shed New Light on Human Evolution
Bones belonging to a "new type of early human" previously unknown to science have been found in Israel, researchers said, claiming to have shed new light on human evolution.
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Africa's Oldest Human Grave Unearthed: 3-Year-Old, Buried 78,000 Years Ago
A child no older than three laid to rest sideways in an earthen grave 78,000 years ago, legs carefully tucked up against its tiny chest, is the earliest known human burial in Africa, researchers reported Wednesday.
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Human Footprints Dating Back 120,000 Years Found In Saudi Arabia
Around 120,000 years ago in what is now northern Saudi Arabia, a small band of homo sapiens stopped to drink and forage at a shallow lake that was also frequented by camels, buffalo, and elephants bigger than any species seen today.
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Earth A Lot Like It Was 115,000 Years Ago, But What Can We Learn From It?
Some 115,000 years ago, homo sapiens were still living in bands of hunter gatherers, largely confined to Africa. And though these various hominids didn't know it, the Earth was coming to the end of a major warm period.
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90,000-Year-Old Homo Sapiens Finger's Fossil Found In Saudi Desert
A fossil finger bone dating back about 90,000 years that was unearthed in Saudi Arabia's Nefud Desert is pointing to what scientists are calling a new understanding of how our species came out of Africa en route to colonizing the world.
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Very Old, Sophisticated Tools Found In India. So Who Made Them?
Humanity's origin story has gotten increasingly tangled in recent years: New discoveries suggest that Homo sapiens interacted and interbred with other species and ventured out of Africa in more than one wave. Researchers have compared the ancient world to J.R.R. Tolkien's Middle Earth - but instead of hobbits, dwarves and elves, our planet had mode...
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200,000-Year-Old Human Jawbone Discovered In Israel Cave Might Be The "Oldest"
A partial jawbone bearing seven teeth unearthed in a cave in Israel represents what scientists are calling the oldest-known Homo sapiens remains outside Africa, showing that our species trekked out of that continent far earlier than previously known.
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Ancient Shark With A Snake Head And 300 Teeth Is Why We Should Just Say Nope To The Ocean
Maybe it's time we Homo sapiens re-evaluated our relationship with the oceans of the world.
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Moroccan Fossil Find Rearranges Homo Sapiens Family Tree
This week's unveiling of the oldest-known Homo sapiens remains has painted an excitingly chaotic picture of what Earth was like 300,000 years ago -- bustling with hominin species that included a very early version of our own, experts say.
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Oldest Homo Sapiens Fossils Discovered In Morocco
Bones found in a cave in Morocco add 100,000 years to the history of modern human fossils. These bones are from "early anatomically modern" humans - our own species, Homo sapiens, with a mixture of modern and primitive traits, an international team of anthropologists, paleontologists and evolutionary scientists report in a pair of papers published ...
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Tibetans' High-Altitude Skills Came Via Extinct Cousin
Tibetans are able to live at high altitude thanks to a special gene they inherited from a mysterious, now-extinct branch of the human family, scientists reported yesterday.
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Ancient Tajikistan Rock Shelter Sheds Light on 130,000-Year-Old Human Migration
A newly discovered rock shelter in Tajikistan’s Zeravshan Valley shows evidence of repeated human occupation over 130,000 years. The site contains artifacts from Neanderthals, Denisovans, and Homo sapiens, suggesting it may have been a migration hub. Archaeologists believe the Inner Asian Mountain Corridor (IAMC) in Central Asia served as a migra...
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Early Humans Reached Asia Sooner Than Imagined, Fossil Discovery Shows
Archaeologists believe that our earliest ancestors most likely travelled coastlines and islands through southeast Asia towards Australia, roughly 50,000-60,000 years ago.
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Fossilised Face of Oldest Human to Have Lived in Europe Unearthed in Spain
A team of paleoanthropologists have unearthed a human fossil that is estimated to be around 1.4 million years old. The fossil was found at the Sima del Elefante archaeological site in Spain during excavations on June 30. Before this, the human fossils found from level 9 or TE9 of the site in 2007 were the oldest. They belonged to two individuals wh...
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Child's Tooth, 1,30,000 Years Old, Offers Clues To Ancient Human Relative
A child's tooth at least 130,000 years old found in a Laos cave could help scientists uncover more information about an early human cousin, a study said on Tuesday.
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Bones of 'New Type of Early Human' Found in Israel, May Shed New Light on Human Evolution
Bones belonging to a "new type of early human" previously unknown to science have been found in Israel, researchers said, claiming to have shed new light on human evolution.
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Africa's Oldest Human Grave Unearthed: 3-Year-Old, Buried 78,000 Years Ago
A child no older than three laid to rest sideways in an earthen grave 78,000 years ago, legs carefully tucked up against its tiny chest, is the earliest known human burial in Africa, researchers reported Wednesday.
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Human Footprints Dating Back 120,000 Years Found In Saudi Arabia
Around 120,000 years ago in what is now northern Saudi Arabia, a small band of homo sapiens stopped to drink and forage at a shallow lake that was also frequented by camels, buffalo, and elephants bigger than any species seen today.
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Earth A Lot Like It Was 115,000 Years Ago, But What Can We Learn From It?
Some 115,000 years ago, homo sapiens were still living in bands of hunter gatherers, largely confined to Africa. And though these various hominids didn't know it, the Earth was coming to the end of a major warm period.
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90,000-Year-Old Homo Sapiens Finger's Fossil Found In Saudi Desert
A fossil finger bone dating back about 90,000 years that was unearthed in Saudi Arabia's Nefud Desert is pointing to what scientists are calling a new understanding of how our species came out of Africa en route to colonizing the world.
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Very Old, Sophisticated Tools Found In India. So Who Made Them?
Humanity's origin story has gotten increasingly tangled in recent years: New discoveries suggest that Homo sapiens interacted and interbred with other species and ventured out of Africa in more than one wave. Researchers have compared the ancient world to J.R.R. Tolkien's Middle Earth - but instead of hobbits, dwarves and elves, our planet had mode...
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200,000-Year-Old Human Jawbone Discovered In Israel Cave Might Be The "Oldest"
A partial jawbone bearing seven teeth unearthed in a cave in Israel represents what scientists are calling the oldest-known Homo sapiens remains outside Africa, showing that our species trekked out of that continent far earlier than previously known.
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Ancient Shark With A Snake Head And 300 Teeth Is Why We Should Just Say Nope To The Ocean
Maybe it's time we Homo sapiens re-evaluated our relationship with the oceans of the world.
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Moroccan Fossil Find Rearranges Homo Sapiens Family Tree
This week's unveiling of the oldest-known Homo sapiens remains has painted an excitingly chaotic picture of what Earth was like 300,000 years ago -- bustling with hominin species that included a very early version of our own, experts say.
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Oldest Homo Sapiens Fossils Discovered In Morocco
Bones found in a cave in Morocco add 100,000 years to the history of modern human fossils. These bones are from "early anatomically modern" humans - our own species, Homo sapiens, with a mixture of modern and primitive traits, an international team of anthropologists, paleontologists and evolutionary scientists report in a pair of papers published ...
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Tibetans' High-Altitude Skills Came Via Extinct Cousin
Tibetans are able to live at high altitude thanks to a special gene they inherited from a mysterious, now-extinct branch of the human family, scientists reported yesterday.
