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Million-year-old skull rewrites human evolution, say scientists New analysis suggests our species began to emerge at least half a million years earlier than we thought

#humanevolutionnews This Denisovan skull from China is far older than we imagined!!

If Denisovans are this old then what else?

"There are likely to be million year-old fossils of Homo sapiens somewhere - we just haven't found them yet" 😮

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We finally know what the face of a Denisovan looked like A skull from China has been identified as Denisovan using molecular evidence – so ancient humans once known solely from their DNA finally have a face

#archaeologynews WE'VE FOUND THE DENISOVANS!!

A new paper has found that proteins from this skull, found in 1933 in Harbin, #China, match their DNA!

It's the first face we have of "Homo longi" (their newly-confirmed name)

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Scientists reconstruct 10,500-year-old woman’s face using DNA | CNN Researchers studying the remains of a prehistoric woman who lived around 10,500 years ago in what is now Belgium have produced a reconstruction of her face using ancient DNA.

#archaeologynews The face of a Mesolithic woman who died in Belgium 10500 years ago

Take with a pinch of salt of course, as hair and adornments are largely speculative

But still these reconstructions are always fascinating!

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Late Paleolithic whale bone tools reveal human and whale ecology in the Bay of Biscay - Nature Communications Here the authors apply ZooMS, radiocarbon, and stable isotope analyses to whale bones from the Bay of Biscay. They find that humans were utilizing the remains of at least five species of whales from 2...

#archaeologynews These tools were made from the bones of 5 different species of whale!

At 20,000-14,000 years old, they are the earliest use of whale bone that we know of

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More than a fingerprint on a pebble: A pigment-marked object from San Lázaro rock-shelter in the context of Neanderthal symbolic behavior - Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences The pebble discovered in the San Lázaro rock-shelter (Segovia, Central Spain) is the oldest known non-utilitarian object with a fingerprint made in Europe. Its morphology and the strategic position of...

#archaeologynews Am I late to the party? Neanderthal fingerprint!!!

But it's more than that. The original paper (here) points out the paint enhances natural features of the rock to look like a face!

Was this a Neanderthal drawing a face??

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New fossil evidence places early humans in Eurasia 2 million years ago New clues about our earliest ancestors suggest they may have reached Eurasia sooner than scientists once thought.

#archaeologynews Animal bones from Romania with the cut-marks of stone tools have been dated to 1.95 million years ago!

This is a good 150,000 years older than Dmanisi, the earliest clear evidence of hominins outside Africa

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A fragment of a hominin face in three different positions, front, side and back, on a black background with scale bars underneath

Is this the "earliest human face of Western Europe"?

Researchers have announced this 1.2 million year old skull from Atapuerca, Spain, which may be Homo erectus (but it's hard to be sure)!

Some really exciting #HumanEvolutionNews for #FossilFriday!

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#HumanEvolutionNews An upcoming study suggests two ancestral populations that diverged ~1.5Ma (presumably in Africa) reconnected and interbred 300,000 years ago, at the onset of Homo sapiens!

Most likely there were many more admixture events, but this may be a very important one #ArchaeologyNews

Sidi Zin Archaeological Project: new investigations into the Acheulean and Middle Stone Age in Tunisia | Antiquity | Cambridge Core Sidi Zin Archaeological Project: new investigations into the Acheulean and Middle Stone Age in Tunisia

#ArchaeologyNews from one of my favourite countries!

A new project in #Tunisia is looking for the start of the Middle Stone Age (supposedly the origins of Homo sapiens) in little-known North Africa. And they've already got chunky new lithics!

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Some fantastic #archaeologynews here!

I think it's clear now that, as a general rule, early humans were always more complex and adaptable than we give them credit for
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1.4 million-year-old jaw that was 'a bit weird for Homo' turns out to be from never-before-seen human relative The newfound species belongs to the genus Paranthropus, whose nickname is "nutcracker man."

Exciting but controversial? Researchers from Bordeaux have proposed an odd jaw found in South Africa in 1949 is actually a new species of Paranthropus, which they call P. capensis

Time will tell if others agree!

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Exceptional finds in Central Africa highlight for the first time a new focus on human evolution Central Africa appears as a key setting for understanding the diversity of adaptive strategies of Homo sapiens.

Intriguing signs of Middle Stone Age hunter-gatherers in the rainforests of Equatorial Guinea 44 thousand years ago - a region often overlooked in our field!

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