A fresh look at museum artifacts fills in a gap in the Asian archaeological record and refutes the idea that an advanced technique was imported from the West by early modern humans.
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Figurative art may derive from Neanderthal hand prints and the hunter’s keen eye for perceiving animals.
New discoveries are changing archaeologists’ ideas about the origins of our own species and our migration out of Africa. This fossil pushes Homo sapiens’ African exodus date back by 50,000 years.
From the tropics of Borneo, Darren Curnoe posted a daily diary sharing his team’s dig to explore ancient cemeteries. Through two metres of clay, human bones and tools were discovered.
The early human ‘Cockney pearly kings and queens’.
The San are caught between a rock and an art place. While they face an uncertain future, myths and meaning come under the spotlight in a new book.
Reconstructions of human evolution are prone to simple, overly-tidy scenarios. Our ancestors, for example, stood on two legs to look over tall grass, or began to speak because, well, they finally had something…
The evidence for a rapid shift in state of the terrestrial atmosphere-ocean system over the last two centuries (see figure 1) requires a deep time perspective, beyond events of the day. Tracing the original…
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Archéologue, penseur et chercheur au CNRS, Université de Toulouse III – Paul Sabatier
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Archéologue et chercheuse en anthropologie, Aix-Marseille Université (AMU)
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Lecturer of Anthropology and Assistant Director of the Turkana Basin Institute, Stony Brook University (The State University of New York)
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Canada Research Chair in Human Evolutionary Studies, and Professor of Archaeology, Simon Fraser University
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Project Officer – Office of the Queensland Chief Scientist
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Professor in Bioarchaeology, Head of Archaeology and Conservation, Cardiff University
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Associate Professor of Archaeology, University of Washington
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Lecturer in Macroevolution, University of Bristol
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Associate Professor of Anthropology, Binghamton University, State University of New York
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Independent Group Leader, Max Planck Institute of Geoanthropology
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Professor of Cultural Palaeoecology, Liverpool John Moores University
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Associate Professor of Archaeology, Griffith University
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Research Associate, University of York
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Professor in the Department of Archaeology, Durham University
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Postdoctoral Fellow in Primate and Human Evolution, Georgia State University
