Human Beginnings Archive

Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - The ancient human remains unearthed in the Bacho Kiro cave (in present-day Bulgaria) and recently genetically described were surprisingly reported to be more closely related

Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Neandertals disappeared around 40,000 years ago, but many details of their extinction remain unclear. To elucidate the situation, it is useful to explore

Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - The study of human evolution plays a vital role for the progress of science and history in society. There are still many riddles

Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A recent study shows preserving the memory of our ancestors has always been important to prehistoric humans. A first-of-its-kind study at Tel Aviv

Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Scientists have discovered surprising evidence modern humans successively inhabited the Mandrin Cave in France within an interval of barely a year. Studies of

Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A groundbreaking study in prehistoric archaeology at Tel Aviv University provides evidence for high cognitive abilities in early humans who lived 170,000 years

Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - The age of the oldest fossils in eastern Africa widely recognized as representing our species, Homo sapiens, has long been uncertain. Now, dating of

Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A new extinct reptile species has shed light on how our earliest ancestors became top predators by modifying their teeth in response to

Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - An international team, led by researchers from the Universities of Vienna and Tübingen, and the Max Planck Society, has identified five new human

Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - An international team of researchers, led by University of Winnipeg palaeoanthropologist Dr. Mirjana Roksandic, has announced the naming of a new species of

Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Humans have been always on the move, creating a complex history of languages and cultural traditions dispersed over the globe. An international team

Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Scientists have found evidence a comet strike 13,000 years ago may have changed human civilization. A cluster of comet fragments believed to have

Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Fear, frustration, anger, and sadness are just some of the many emotions we can experience during a pandemic outbreak. How a person handles

Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A remarkable skull found in South Africa challenges the theory of evolution. This 260,000-year-old skull is extraordinary because the frontal bone of this

Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Little Foot is the nickname our ancestor, who lived more than 3 million years ago. Some years ago scientists said Little Foot is

Conny Waters – AncientPages.com - About 400,000 years ago, Homo erectus essentially vanished and researchers have tried to determine when and where one of modern humans' direct ancestors

Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Using a special type of radar, scientists have discovered “ghost” footprints dating as far back as the Pleistocene Era. Invisible footprints hiding since

Conny Waters - AncientPages.com -  It took several years, but scientists have now confirmed this is the oldest human footprint in the Americas.  The discovery is significant as it

AncientPages.com - Homo Erectus, one of our closest ancient ancestors is an extinct species of often credited with first major innovation in stone tool technology. Being innovative is a

AncientPages.com - The oldest known human-like footprints recently preserved in Trachilos, Crete are nearly 6 million years old and represent one of the recent and most fascinating discoveries in paleontology. Fossil footprints

Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Some would say it’s just a piece of rock, but to a Neanderthal that lived 130,000 years ago, it was a precious item.