The age of the earliest human remains in East Africa widely recognized as representing our Homo sapiens species has long been uncertain. Now, the dating of a massive volcanic eruption in Ethiopia reveals they are much older than previously thought. The remains — known as Omo I — were found in Ethiopia in the late 1960s, ...
Few sites in the world preserve a continuous archaeological record spanning millions of years. Wonderwerk Cave, located in South Africa’s Kalahari Desert, is one of those rare sites. Meaning “miracle” in Afrikaans, Wonderwerk Cave has been identified as potentially the earliest cave occupation in the world. It is the site of some of the earliest ...
Humans settled in southwestern Amazonia and even experimented with agriculture much earlier than previously thought, according to an international team of researchers. Jose Capriles, assistant professor of anthropology, said: “We have long been aware that complex societies emerged in Llanos de Moxos in southwestern Amazonia, Bolivia, around 2,500 years ago, but our new evidence suggests that humans ...
New research disputes a long-held view that our earliest tool-bearing ancestors contributed to ancient mammal extinctions in Africa over the last several million years. Instead, the researchers argue that long-term environmental change drove these mammal extinctions, mainly in the form of grassland expansion likely caused by falling atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) levels. Tyler Faith, curator ...
If everyone on the planet wanted to eat a healthy diet, there wouldn’t be enough fruit and vegetables to feed the planet, according to a new University of Guelph study. A team of researchers compared global agricultural production with nutritionists’ consumption recommendations and found a drastic mismatch. Study co-author Prof. Evan Fraser, holder of the ...
New archaeological evidence shows that humans were living in the Philippines by 709,000 years ago — hundreds of thousands of years earlier than previously thought. Stone artifacts were found by an international team of researchers, including Dr. Gerrit “Gert” van den Bergh, from University of Wollongong’s Centre for Archaeological Science, at an excavation at Kalinga on Luzon, ...
Are we truly the first advanced Earthlings to inhabit this forth rock from the sun? Imagine if, many millions of years ago, dinosaurs drove cars through cities of mile-high buildings. A preposterous idea, right? Over the course of tens of millions of years, however, all of the direct evidence of a civilization — its artifacts ...
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