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4,000-Year-Old Human Bones Found In Ras Al Khaimah (ArchaeologyNewsNetwork 04/04/20)

An unprecedented joint project has seen Ras Al Khaimah’s Department of Antiquities and Museums collaborate with two prominent US universities to study 4,000-year-old human bones unearthed at two ancient tombs in the emirate.

Study Compares Parietal Lobes of Neanderthals and Modern Humans (Heritage Daily 04/06/20)

The Paleoneurobiology group at the National Center for Research on Human Evolution (CENIEH), led by Emiliano Bruner, has just published a morphological analysis of the brain of Neanderthals and modern humans, the results of which suggest that the “Roundness” of our brain is due in part to the fact that the parietal lobes are, on…

Earliest known skull of Homo erectus unearthed by Australian-led team ( The Guardia 04/03/20)

Fossil shows the first of our ancestors existed up to 200,000 years earlier than previously thought, researchers say.

Skull Fossils in Cave Show Mix of Human Relatives Roamed South Africa (New York Times 04/02/20)

The excavation found the oldest known Homo erectus, a direct ancestor of our species, living around the same time as other extinct hominins.

This 300,000-year-old skull may be from an African ‘ghost’ population (Science News 01/04/20)

The Broken Hill fossil’s age suggests the hominid lived at the same time as Homo sapiens.

Modern humans, Neanderthals share a tangled genetic history, study affirms (Heritagedaily 04/02/20))

In recent years, scientists have uncovered evidence that modern humans and Neanderthals share a tangled past.

We may now know what our common ancestor with Neanderthals looked like (Newscientist 04/01/20)

Two studies of ancient humans have shed new light on the last common ancestor we share with Neanderthals. An extinct species that was once in the frame now looks unlikely to be the one. Another now seems more plausible, but it may only be related to the ancestor.

Ancient cultic area for warrior-god uncovered in Iraq (LiveScience 03/30/20)

Archaeologists recently unearthed a 5,000-year-old cultic area that held fiery feasts, animal sacrifices and ritual processions dedicated to Ningirsu, a Mesopotamian warrior-god, at the site of Girsu (also known as Tello) in Iraq.

10 prehistoric cave paintings ( Heritagedaily 03/30/20)

Cave paintings are a type of parietal art (which category also includes petroglyphs, or engravings), found on the wall or ceilings of caves.

Research identifies regular climbing behavior in a human ancestor ( phys.org 03/30/20)

Image of fossil femora. Credit University of Kent. Phys.org

A new study led by the University of Kent has found evidence that human ancestors as recent as two million years ago may have regularly climbed trees.

How Stone Age humans unlocked the glucose in plants (phys.org 03/27/20)

Ground stones were a 'major evolutionary success' as they allowed people to unlock the energy in plants by making flour. Credit: José-Manuel Benito Álvarez/Wikimedia commons, licenced under CC BY-SA 2.5_ https://phys.org/

Early cave paintings of hunting scenes may give the impression our Stone Age ancestors lived mainly on chunks of meat, but plants—and the ability to unlock the glucose inside—were just as key to their survival.

Neanderthals ate sharks and dolphins (BBC News 03/26/20)

Utensilios fabricados con patas de un buey de mar João Zilhão_ElMundo

Neanderthals were eating fish, mussels and seals at a site in present-day Portugal, according to a new study.

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