Dans ce nouveau numéro de @Prehistorytravel , Alexia et @Tmdjc explore le genre #Paranthropus :

👉 https://tmdjc.com/tmdjcPrehistorhic02.htm#Ph20

Entre #fossiles , alimentation et locomotion , ils nous racontent l’histoire complexe de ces #hominines robustes.

Meet Paranthropus boisei—the heavy hitter of early hominin evolution.
With huge molars, powerful jaw muscles, and massive cheekbones, this “Nutcracker Man” was built for a tough, gritty diet. Evolution doesn’t play around. 🦴
#PaleoPost #WOPA #FossilFriday #Paranthropus #HumanOrigins

1.4-million-year-old jawbone reveals new human relative, rewriting evolutionary history

A 1.4-million-year-old fossilized jawbone found in South Africa belongs to a newly discovered species of Paranthropus, an extinct genus of human relatives, according to a recent study published in the Journal of Human Evolution...

More information: https://archaeologymag.com/2025/02/1-4-million-year-old-jawbone-reveals-new-human-relative/

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#archaeology #archeology #archaeologynews #anthropology #paranthropus #Hominins #humanevolution

The genus Paranthropus has a new species.

https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/1-4-million-year-old-jaw-that-was-a-bit-weird-for-homo-turns-out-to-be-from-never-before-seen-human-relative

#paranthropus

Welcome to new #hominid #Paranthropus https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/1-4-million-year-old-jaw-that-was-a-bit-weird-for-homo-turns-out-to-be-from-never-before-seen-human-relative

Op het schierieland #Homa in #Kenia, een plek die wel de '#bakermat van de #mensheid' wordt genoemd, hebben archeologen 3 miljoen jaar oude stenen #werktuigen gevonden. Ze behoren tot de oudst gevonden werktuigen ooit. In de buurt van de werktuigen werd een tand van een #paranthropus gevonden. Dit zou kunnen betekenen dat de werktuigen zijn gemaakt door deze vroege mensachtigen, die geen directe voorouder waren van de mens.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/researchers-find-ancient-tools-kenya/

https://sailing-dulce.nl/home/article-8711 #homoerectus #paranthropus #monakeyzer #vleermuizen #huismussen Vrijdag 29-11-2024 In het verleden zijn er nogal wat verschillende mensensoorten geweest. Soms leefden die eeuwenlang naast elkaar, zoals bijvoorbeeld tussen 400.000 en 40.000 jaar geleden, de Neanderthaler, de Denisovamens en de moderne mens Homo Sapiens. De evolutie beproefde millennialang diverse modellen en hun mate van aanpassing aan soms sterk wisselende omstandigheden zoals oerwoud en savanne, ijstij..

Oldest genetic data from a human relative found in 2-million-year-old teeth
Ancient protein sequences identify the sex of Paranthropus robustus fossils and hint at evolutionary relationships.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-02242-z #paranthropus #DNA #GeneticData #sex #fossils

Did more than one ancient human relative use early stone tools? - Scientists find oldest Oldowan butchery tools—long seen as a hallmark of our own genus—with Paranthropus fossils With its powerful jaws and teeth, Paranthropus was thought to have no need for stone tools to process food.
https://www.science.org/content/article/one-ancient-human-relative-use-early-stone-tools
#StoneTools #archaeology #Oldowan #Paranthropus

The dead hippo represented a stroke of luck to our early human ancestors.
Who Made the First Stone Tool Kits? - A nearly three-million-year-old butchering site packed with animal bones, stone implements and molars from our early ancestors reignites the debate
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/who-made-the-first-stone-toolkits-180981606/
#StoneTools #archaeology #Oldowan #Paranthropus

2.9-million-year-old #toolkit in Kenya raises new questions
The assumption has long been that only the genus #Homo was capable of making stone tools. Finding the molars of #Paranthropus changes everything.

#archaeology #StoneTools #excavations #Nyayanga #kenya #OldowanToolkit

https://interestingengineering.com/science/oldest-stone-tools-kenya?utm_placement=newsletter

Sarebbe un peccato di presunzione dare per scontato che i nostri antenati Homo fossero gli unici capaci di usare in modo ingegnoso le pietre e trasformarle. E se anche Paranthropus fosse stato un toolmaker? Per ora è soltanto un'ipotesi, ma in questo sito di 3 milioni di anni fa sono emersi molti strumenti litici usati per lavorare il cibo e due molari di #Paranthropus. Il lavoro è uscito su Science (con due italiane tra i firmatari) e io ne ho scritto qui #archeologia https://www.lescienze.it/news/2023/02/10/news/ominini_paranthropus_fabbricazione_utensili_litici_nyayanga_olduvaiana-11304947/

Have you heard the news about #Paranthropus? We now have confirmation, on some level, that they were using tools. We don’t know if they made them, but they have been found associated together. Learn more about this discovery, nd why it is, no is not important. https://dsh.re/7eed97 #paleoanthropology #archaeology #lithics #stonetools #worldofpaleoanthropology Learn more: www.worldofPaleoanthropology.org!

Two million years ago, there were three hominin genera -- #Australopithecus, #Paranthropus, and early #Homo -- living in the same place at the same time. I think about that a lot.

I asked #ChatGPT to write me a poem about it, and ... I kind of freaking love it.

Two figures stand alone
In the early morning light
Each one curious

One, an ancient ape
With a face of fur and stone
The other, taller

But both share a gaze
Of wonder and amazement
At the other's form

They are not alone
In this wild and dangerous land
But for now, they stand

In awe of each other
Two species, side by side
A moment of peace.