hominins Archive

New Tool-Making Timeline For East Asian Hominins – Study

AncientPages.com | March 9, 2024

Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A global team of researchers, spearheaded by Chinese scientists, has discovered that East Asian hominins were already using sophisticated stone tool technology around 1.1

Fossils

First Fossils Of Ancient Human Relatives Sent To Space – Tribute To Science And Our Ancient History

AncientPages.com | September 12, 2023

Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Fossils from Homo naledi and Australopithecus sediba become the oldest astronauts to travel to space, flying on Virgin Galactic's spaceship VSS Unity. In

Archaeology

Are The Mysterious ‘Ubeidiya Limestone Spheroids Of Early Hominins Evidence Of Intentional Symmetric Geometry?

AncientPages.com | September 6, 2023

Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Limestone spheroids, enigmatic lithic artifacts from the ancient past, have perplexed archaeologists for years. While they span from the Oldowan to the Middle

Archaeology

Sinuses Reveal More About The Evolution Of Ancient Humans

AncientPages.com | October 29, 2022

Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - The changing shape of the frontal sinuses is helping to reveal more about how modern humans, and our ancient relatives, evolved. An international

Archaeology

Central Asia Identified As A Key Region For Human Ancestors

AncientPages.com | October 22, 2022

Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - The interior of Central Asia has been identified as a key route for some of the earliest hominin migrations across Asia, according to

Archaeology

Early Humans Were Walking 7 Million Years Ago – Hominin Fossils Reveal

AncientPages.com | September 1, 2022

Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Hominin fossils discovered at the Toros-Menalla site in Chad’s Djurab desert have substantially contributed to scientists’ understanding of early human evolution in Africa.

Archaeology

DNA From Mysterious Hominin In China Suggests Native Americans’ East Asian Roots

AncientPages.com | July 14, 2022

Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - For the first time, researchers successfully sequenced the genome of ancient human fossils from the Late Pleistocene in southern China. The data, published

Archaeology

1.5-Million-Year-Old Hominin Fossil Reveals Missing Link In Human Evolution

AncientPages.com | March 16, 2022

Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - The ancient history of human evolution just got a bit more complicated, or perhaps the answers are there but scientists must still put

Archaeology

8-Million-Year-Old Jaw May Offer Evidence Humans Evolved In Europe Instead Of Africa – Controversial Theory Suggests

AncientPages.com | April 24, 2019

Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Scientists have presented a controversial idea suggesting humans evolved in Europe instead of Africa. They base their theory on an 8-million-year-old skull that could

"The footprints, left one after the other, indicate that this creature was perfectly adapted to moving swiftly across the land in a two-footed position. From this point of view, we are dealing with our family, our relatives"

Archaeology

Oldest Known Fossil Footprints Discovered On Crete By Polish Researcher Challenge Established Theories Of Human Evolution

AncientPages.com | November 11, 2017

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