archaic humans
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Humanity’s Ancestor Could Get a New Name: ‘Homo Bodoensis’
The chronicling of human evolution has proven to be an onerous and complicated task, resulting in all sorts of contradictions and inconsistencies. A group of scientists is seeking to make better sense of this anthropological mess by proposing a new species of ancestral human that calls for the reassigning of certain fossils.
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More Evidence That Neanderthals Were ‘Absorbed’ by Humans, Not Wiped Out
Prehistoric teeth found over 100 years ago are some of the best evidence yet for hybridised communities of Neanderthals and modern humans.
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How This Decade Of Archaeology Changed What We Know About Human Origins
Unlike humans living today, our distant ancestors exerted a very small footprint on the planet, leaving barely anything behind to chronicle their time on Earth. With the discovery of each new skull fragment, femur, and stone tool, however, archaeologists are methodically piecing together the fractured history of our species and other hominins closely related to…
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Before Our Species Left Africa, Now-Extinct Humans Made These Fancy Tools In India
Archaeologists have discovered sophisticated stone tools in India dating back some 385,000 years. That’s all sorts of incredible, because Homo sapiens such as you and me didn’t leave Africa until about 175,000 years ago. The discovery is resetting what we know about so-called “archaic” humans and the dramatic extent to which they spread out from…