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Mysterious 300,000-Year-Old Skull Found In Greece Does Not Belong To Humans
The skull likely belongs to Homo heidelbergensis, distinct from Neanderthals and Homo sapiens.
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Ancient Humans Ate Children 850,000 Years Ago, New Discovery Reveals
The body parts of the child belong to Homo antecessor, believed to be the last common ancestor of both Homo sapiens and Neanderthals.
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Archaeologists Find Burial Sites With 100,000-Year-Old Bones At Israel's Tinshemet Cave
Archaeologists believe they have found one of the oldest burial sites in the world at a cave in Israel, where the well-preserved remains of early humans dating back some 100,000 years were carefully arranged in pits.
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Ancient Tajikistan Rock Shelter Sheds Light on 130,000-Year-Old Human Migration
A newly discovered rock shelter in Tajikistan’s Zeravshan Valley shows evidence of repeated human occupation over 130,000 years. The site contains artifacts from Neanderthals, Denisovans, and Homo sapiens, suggesting it may have been a migration hub. Archaeologists believe the Inner Asian Mountain Corridor (IAMC) in Central Asia served as a migra...
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Early Humans Reached Asia Sooner Than Imagined, Fossil Discovery Shows
Archaeologists believe that our earliest ancestors most likely travelled coastlines and islands through southeast Asia towards Australia, roughly 50,000-60,000 years ago.
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Fossilised Face of Oldest Human to Have Lived in Europe Unearthed in Spain
A team of paleoanthropologists have unearthed a human fossil that is estimated to be around 1.4 million years old. The fossil was found at the Sima del Elefante archaeological site in Spain during excavations on June 30. Before this, the human fossils found from level 9 or TE9 of the site in 2007 were the oldest. They belonged to two individuals wh...
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Child's Tooth, 1,30,000 Years Old, Offers Clues To Ancient Human Relative
A child's tooth at least 130,000 years old found in a Laos cave could help scientists uncover more information about an early human cousin, a study said on Tuesday.
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Bones of 'New Type of Early Human' Found in Israel, May Shed New Light on Human Evolution
Bones belonging to a "new type of early human" previously unknown to science have been found in Israel, researchers said, claiming to have shed new light on human evolution.
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Africa's Oldest Human Grave Unearthed: 3-Year-Old, Buried 78,000 Years Ago
A child no older than three laid to rest sideways in an earthen grave 78,000 years ago, legs carefully tucked up against its tiny chest, is the earliest known human burial in Africa, researchers reported Wednesday.
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Human Footprints Dating Back 120,000 Years Found In Saudi Arabia
Around 120,000 years ago in what is now northern Saudi Arabia, a small band of homo sapiens stopped to drink and forage at a shallow lake that was also frequented by camels, buffalo, and elephants bigger than any species seen today.
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Mysterious 300,000-Year-Old Skull Found In Greece Does Not Belong To Humans
The skull likely belongs to Homo heidelbergensis, distinct from Neanderthals and Homo sapiens.
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Ancient Humans Ate Children 850,000 Years Ago, New Discovery Reveals
The body parts of the child belong to Homo antecessor, believed to be the last common ancestor of both Homo sapiens and Neanderthals.
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Archaeologists Find Burial Sites With 100,000-Year-Old Bones At Israel's Tinshemet Cave
Archaeologists believe they have found one of the oldest burial sites in the world at a cave in Israel, where the well-preserved remains of early humans dating back some 100,000 years were carefully arranged in pits.
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Ancient Tajikistan Rock Shelter Sheds Light on 130,000-Year-Old Human Migration
A newly discovered rock shelter in Tajikistan’s Zeravshan Valley shows evidence of repeated human occupation over 130,000 years. The site contains artifacts from Neanderthals, Denisovans, and Homo sapiens, suggesting it may have been a migration hub. Archaeologists believe the Inner Asian Mountain Corridor (IAMC) in Central Asia served as a migra...
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Early Humans Reached Asia Sooner Than Imagined, Fossil Discovery Shows
Archaeologists believe that our earliest ancestors most likely travelled coastlines and islands through southeast Asia towards Australia, roughly 50,000-60,000 years ago.
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Fossilised Face of Oldest Human to Have Lived in Europe Unearthed in Spain
A team of paleoanthropologists have unearthed a human fossil that is estimated to be around 1.4 million years old. The fossil was found at the Sima del Elefante archaeological site in Spain during excavations on June 30. Before this, the human fossils found from level 9 or TE9 of the site in 2007 were the oldest. They belonged to two individuals wh...
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Child's Tooth, 1,30,000 Years Old, Offers Clues To Ancient Human Relative
A child's tooth at least 130,000 years old found in a Laos cave could help scientists uncover more information about an early human cousin, a study said on Tuesday.
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Bones of 'New Type of Early Human' Found in Israel, May Shed New Light on Human Evolution
Bones belonging to a "new type of early human" previously unknown to science have been found in Israel, researchers said, claiming to have shed new light on human evolution.
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Africa's Oldest Human Grave Unearthed: 3-Year-Old, Buried 78,000 Years Ago
A child no older than three laid to rest sideways in an earthen grave 78,000 years ago, legs carefully tucked up against its tiny chest, is the earliest known human burial in Africa, researchers reported Wednesday.
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Human Footprints Dating Back 120,000 Years Found In Saudi Arabia
Around 120,000 years ago in what is now northern Saudi Arabia, a small band of homo sapiens stopped to drink and forage at a shallow lake that was also frequented by camels, buffalo, and elephants bigger than any species seen today.
