The 85-million-year timeline of human evolution
Combining archaeological evidence with ancient DNA and data on past climates shows us how long and winding the story of human evolution is, stretching back millions of years to whe...
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Combining archaeological evidence with ancient DNA and data on past climates shows us how long and winding the story of human evolution is, stretching back millions of years to whe...
Learn how 21 fossil footprints show that some P. boisei stood six feet tall and crossed Lake Turkana’s shore in a mostly male group.
A Catalan rock shelter preserves a rare record of the transition from hunter-gathering to farming. For thousands of years, people repeatedly returned to a rock shelter above the Mo...
A set of footprints that date back more than 1.4 million years reveals our ancient relatives may have travelled in all-male gangs.
Scientists say some of the traits that define modern humans may have evolved only after long-standing biological and cultural barriers were broken. Human evolution is often present...
We must be ready to ask some questions about many of the evolution stories we have taken for granted. Source
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Two tiny Ice Age artifacts, hidden for 40,000 years, may help explain why our species survived. Archaeologists recently excavated these nearly 40...
A 1.4-million-year-old trail of footprints reveals that a powerful human relative grew nearly as large as us and may have traveled in all-male groups. Eight individuals walked acro...
Early humans in England crafted a rare piece of elephant bone into a reusable hammer for sharpening stone tools nearly 500,000 years ago. The extraordinary find reveals that ancien...
Carbon-14 dates show that people repeatedly occupied high Pyrenean landscapes throughout the Holocene. The high Pyrenees may look like one of Europe’s last untouched wildernesses,...
Homo erectus may have left a detectable genetic trace in living humans through ancient interbreeding with Denisovans. For much of the 20th century, human evolution was often pictur...
A small cave at 2,235 metres in the Núria Valley of the Pyrenees held 23 stacked hearths, nearly 200 fragments of copper-bearing green mineral, a child's finger bone and a shell ca...
Spare a moment to appreciate the accomplishments of an overlooked, underappreciated species. The post Not Just a Dull-Witted Caveperson: Reconsidering Homo erectus appeared first o...
Over 1.4 million years ago, a group of eight ancient hominins walked across a shallow mudflat, but their footprints don’t match those of Paranthropus boisei or Homo erectus
Excavation of Neanderthal and other sites is leveling even further the fabled Ascent of Man. Source
Learn how a skull fragment from inland Spain is adding to evidence that human evolution in Europe followed no single path.
Did ancient footprints just rewrite the story of Nutcracker Man? New fossil tracks from Kenya suggest this extinct human relative was much taller and more social than scientists on...
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A new study documents a set of fossil footprints preserving a snapshot of “fossil behavior” from an ancient hominin group along a lakeshore in north...
Did ancient footprints just rewrite the story of Nutcracker Man? New fossil tracks from Kenya suggest this extinct human relative was much taller and more social than scientists on...
Perfectly preserved ‘phytolith’ plant crystals reveal that Indigenous Australians brought grasses into a cave for ritual burning as far back as the last Ice Age. Layer after layer...
The Koskarlı Cave in Türkiye has unveiled a remarkable 12,900-year-old layer showcasing the life of hunter-gatherers. This extraordinary find includes evidence of Epipalaeolithic...
Between 29,000 and 19,000 years ago, the planet experienced some of its coldest temperatures and drastic landscape changes at the peak of the Ice Age, during the Last Glacial Maxim...
A reconstruction of East Africa's environment 1.75 million years ago suggests wildfires spiked during wetter times, which may have influenced human evolution
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