Africa’s large mammal heritage has formed a deep cultural legacy for all of humankind.
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Knowing that our North African ancestors were making handaxes helps scientists to understand how our human ancestors spread across the African continent.
Walking has taken a very long time to develop, with evidence of bipedalism among early humans in Africa roughly 4.4 million years ago.
This is a hugely important find. It means that one of our earlier ancestors possibly originated in southern Africa.
Our extinct, distant cousins still lived in Indonesia 110,000 years ago.
300,000 years ago, there were lots of different species of human. Now it’s only us – and we’re probably the reason why.
New research models how the Homo floresiensis species could have evolved its small size remarkably quickly while living on an isolated island.
New research outlines how the ancestors of modern humans interbred with several archaic human groups on the passage from Africa to Australia.
No area of archaeology has seen such vibrant change in recent times than how we understand our family tree. Could 2019 be the year we learn more about our mysterious ancestor Homo erectus?
New discovery could be a game changer for archaeology.
Humans butchered a rhino in a remote part of the Philippines 700,000 years ago, but who were they and how did they get there?
Children in the distant past were put to work early, reveal footprints.
A new study estimates the nutritional value of human flesh and challenges the belief that prehistoric humans engaged in cannibalism just to fill their stomachs.
Scientists are hoping that ancient stone tools found on a family farm in Kenya will add to a clearer picture of the first appearance, duration and variation of prehistoric technologies found so far.
New fossil finds show the first large-bodied inhabitants of an isolated Indonesian island evolved to Hobbit-size, but they always remembered how to make and use stone tools.
The big question being asked is: where does Homo naledi fit in the evolutionary tree? Assessing the similarity or dissimilarity between fossil skulls has provided a possible clue to the answer.
Despite science refuting the existence of different human races, people have used “race” throughout history to divide and denigrate certain people while promoting their claims of superiority.
Despite claims about its age, puzzling combinations of features from Homo naledi gives it an uncanny resemblance to human beings.
The era in which humans have had the power to alter the conditions for all life on Earth is widely thought to have begun with the Industrial Revolution 250 years ago. This era has been dubbed the “Anthropocene…
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Adjunct professor, UNSW Sydney
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Professor of Palaeoanthropology, La Trobe University
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ARC Laureate Fellow, Charles Sturt University
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Associate Professor, Southern Cross University
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Australian Research Council Future Fellow, Archaeology, School of Social Science, The University of Queensland
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Professor, Griffith University
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Senior Lecturer in Archaeology, University of Brighton
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Senior Lecturer in Palaeolithic Archaeology, University of Southampton
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Honorary Research Associate, Evolutionary Studies Institute, University of the Witwatersrand
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Emeritus Research Professor of African Ecology, University of the Witwatersrand
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Paleoanthropologist, University of Wisconsin-Madison
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Emeritus Professor, University of Cape Town
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Senior Lecturer in Paleontology and Evolutionary Biology, Life Sciences at the University of Bath, University of Bath
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Professor in Archaeology, University of New England
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Lecturer in African Studies, Yale University
