homo erectus Archive
Evolution
Eddie Gonzales Jr. - AncientPages.com - Our lineage's species formation pattern was unlike anything else. A cast of the skull of Homo Heidelbergensis, one of the hominin species analyzed
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - About 6 million years ago, in the deep forests of eastern Africa, something spectacular happened. Chimpanzees, our closest relative in the animal kingdom, evolved
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - The paleoneurologist Emiliano Bruner and the archaeologist Sileshi Semaw, both from the Centro Nacional de Investigación sobre la Evolución Humana (CENIEH), have published
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - If you take a magnifying glass and a flashlight and look at your teeth very carefully in the mirror, in places you can
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists and paleontologists have recently unearthed an intriguing 1-million-year-old human skull fossil that gives scientists a remarkable opportunity to get more insight into
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Scientists have just published a study of what may prove to be China's most ancient human fossil. Scientists at the Centro Nacional de
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Archaeology
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
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Quintessential human traits such as large brains first appear in Homo erectus nearly 2 million years ago. This evolutionary transition towards human-like traits is often
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Researchers have verified the age and origin of one of the oldest specimens of Homo erectus—a very successful early human who roamed the world
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - The smallest Homo erectus cranium in Africa and diverse stone tools found at Gona, Ethiopia, indicate that human ancestors were more varied, both physically
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Hindu Mythology
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Monkey God Hanuman is an important deity in Hindu mythology and one of the central characters of the Indian epic Ramayana. Hanuman is a
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Archaeology
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
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Stone tools ranging in age from 500,000 to 60,000 years old in gold mines in eastern Sudan, have been discovered by an international team
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Archaeology
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
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Human Beginnings
AncientPages.com - An "uncommonly well-preserved" fossilized skull of homo erectus has been discovered by Chinese archaeologists, at the Hualongdong archaeological site in Dongzhi County, in east China. The discovery contributes to
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![The fossilized skull of Homo erectus discovered at the site of the grotto of Hualong, in the district of Dongzhi, in the Chinese province of Anhui [Credit: Xinhua]](https://www.ancientpages.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/dongzhiman1-220x162.jpg)
