Two of the teeth were museum specimens, whose age and context curators didn’t know, making them less useful for other […]
Category: paleoanthropology
Neanderthal brains measure up to ours—literally
(When we talk about “intelligence,” we’re describing something complex and, frankly, sort of nebulous; it’s impossible to really quantify, but […]
Never mind Band-Aids, Neanderthals had antiseptic birch tar
Our view of Neanderthal life keeps getting more complex and vibrant. This replica shows how Neanderthals might have used birch […]
“Million-year-old” fossil skulls from China are far older—and not Denisovans
careful with that, it’s an antique The revised age may help make sense of 2-million-year-old stone tools elsewhere in China. […]
We have a fossil closer to our split with Neanderthals and Denisovans
The Casablanca fossils are about the same age as hominin fossils from Spain, which belong to a species called Homo […]
Lead poisoning has been a feature of our evolution
Lead poisoning has been a feature of our evolution A recent study found lead in teeth from 2 million-year-old hominin […]
Stone tools may hint at ancestors of Homo floresiensis
Some stone tools found near a river on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi suggest that the first hominins had reached […]
We’ve had a Denisovan skull since the 1930s—only nobody knew
It’s a Denisovan? Always has been. After years of mystery, we now know what at least one Denisovan looked like. […]