And here on #Ardipithecus ankles -- the truly transitional early #hominin, still ape-like and climbing with grasping foot but also #bipedal
https://phys.org/news/2025-10-analysis-million-year-ankle-exposes.html
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Mystery hominin skull discovered in 1960 dated to at least 286,000 years old
A mystery in human evolution may be close to being solved, thanks to a new study by the Institut de Paléontologie Humaine in France. A nearly complete cranium discovered in 1960 inside the Petralona Cave in northern Greece has defied all efforts at identification and precise dating for several decades...
More info: https://archaeologymag.com/2025/08/petralona-skull-discovered-in-1960/
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Evolution of #hominin #bipedalism in two steps
New article out today in #Scientific #Data: Lewandowski et al. (2025) present the #Apemen #Faces #Database (#ApeFD)!
620 #hominin faces, with #morphometric data + "vibe check" (#threat, #sociability, #trustworthiness... you name it).
Researchers can use this #open dataset to explore questions on #ocular #morphology, social perception, facial morphology, and even applications in cross-disciplinary fields such as #primatology, #cultural #anthropology, and media studies. Go wild, use it in your research, and e-mail us if you have any questions! :D
🔗 Article: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-025-05813-z
🔗 Dataset: https://doi.org/10.18150/L2RHIA
John Hawks here on the #footprints showing different #hominin species strolling along past each other on the shores of #KoobiFora1.5 MA
'A trackway and three isolated prints from Koobi Fora, Kenya, around 1.5 million years old, look to have been made by two different species. The research team who analyzed the prints, led by Kevin Hatala, determined that the trackway was likely made by a large Paranthropus boisei individual, while two or three smaller Homo individuals probably made the isolated prints on the same ancient surface.'
https://www.johnhawks.net/p/when-hominins-walked-in-each-others-tracks
18-Jun-2025
Research confirms that a nearly complete #hominin skull discovered near Harbin belongs to the #Denisovan lineage. It dates back to at least 146,000 years ago.
https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1087905
The skullduggery over #Toumai involved suppression of possible evidence that it was not in fact a #hominin (bipedal) fossil.
'When she returned, she found that her research materials had been confiscated; the fossils were being “renumbered”, she was told. At one point, however, Bergeret said, one of her advisers appeared with the femur in his hand. “This piece,” he warned, holding it before her: “You forget you ever saw it.”'
#Death has always fascinated, if not most of the time, scared us. For as long as we have been conscious, we have wondered where our "person" goes when we leave what we understand as existence.
However, are we the first #hominin species to wonder about the #afterlife?
Apparently not, as evidence shows; read on - https://worldofpaleoanthropology.org/2025/04/30/beyond-the-grave-burial-and-the-human-condition-in-deep-time/
#Death has always fascinated, if not most of the time, scared us. For as long as we have been conscious, we have wondered where our "person" goes when we leave what we understand as existence.
However, are we the first #hominin species to wonder about the #afterlife?
Apparently not, as evidence shows; read on - https://worldofpaleoanthropology.org/2025/04/30/beyond-the-grave-burial-and-the-human-condition-in-deep-time/
More than one #hominin used to traverse the ancient #African landscape. Sometimes, more likely more often than we would have ever thought, these species may have interacted, even seen each other! Learn more about hominin #footprints discovered near #Turkana with Dr. Kevin Hatala https://youtu.be/vX-b4L3cxW0
The #Denisovans are an enigmatic species of #hominin so far mostly known from their #DNA and a few #fossil fragments, typically thought to have inhabited mostly northern ranges. We now have evidence of tripical habitation from the southern seas of Taiwan - https://youtube.com/shorts/nSHmKC8k5DM?si=AD9SjHeNiim5meAR #anthropology
The #Denisovans are an enigmatic species of #hominin so far mostly known from their #DNA and a few #fossil fragments, typically thought to have inhabited mostly northern ranges. We now have evidence of tripical habitation from the southern seas of Tibet - https://youtube.com/shorts/nSHmKC8k5DM?si=AD9SjHeNiim5meAR #Anthropology
wow - this expands the realm of #Denisovans a lot.
10-Apr-2025
A new #Denisovan
mandible from #Taiwan
Ancient #protein analysis revealed that the oldest #hominin #fossil in Taiwan was derived from a male Denisovan
https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1079260
Paper is out in #Science #anthropology
The oldest human face from western #Europe, a 1.4 MA old type of #Homoerectus, #Atapuerca, N Spain
'Excavations at Sima del Elefante paint a picture of lush meadows and woodlands more than 1.1m years ago with oaks, pines, juniper and hazel trees in abundance. Rivers cutting through the landscape drew water voles and mice, hippos, bison and deer. Quartz and flint tools have also been recovered alongside animal bones bearing cut marks from butchering.'
Hominin Presence In Eurasia By At Least 1.95 Million Years Ago
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https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-56154-9 <-- shared paper
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#GIS #spatial #mapping #Hominin #spatialanalysis #spatiotemporal #Dmanisi #Georgia #Grăunceanu #Romania #Graunceanu #bones #artifacts #archaeology #dating #UPb #uraniumleaddating #radiometric #biostratigraphy #Europe #Eurasia
Chimpanzees choose stone tools like early human ancestors from 2.5 million years ago
A new study published in the Journal of Human Evolution has shown remarkable similarities between how modern chimpanzees and early human ancestors pick tools...
More information: https://archaeologymag.com/2025/01/chimpanzees-choose-stone-tools-like-human-ancestors/
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#archaeology #archeology #archaeologynews #anthropology #oldowan #hominin #humanevolution #chimpanzee #evolution
#Lucy is one of the most famous #Hominin fossils ever discovered. She is a member of the Australopithecus afarensis species, which lived in East Africa between 3.9 and 2.9 million years ago.
Worth running alongside this the 'provocative commentary on the diversity of hominin fossils of eastern Eurasia, attributing material now called Denisovans to Homo juluensis'
We will be getting Chris Stringer's take on the complicated #EastAsia #hominin #fossil situation on Nov 19 at RAG
#anthropology #HumanEvolution
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-024-53918-7
Acrylic painting of a woman based on the 300,000-year-old Kabwe skull from Zambia, traditionally assigned to the species Homo heidelbergensis.
#hominin #paleoanthropology #prehistoric #paleoart #african #blackwoman #womanofcolor #painting #traditionalart #art #mastoart
51,200-Year-Old Cave Art, Likely the World’s Oldest, May Not Have Been Made by Modern Humans - The Debrief
https://thedebrief.org/51000-year-old-cave-art-likely-the-worlds-oldest-may-not-have-been-made-by-humans/
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#Sulawesi
#Hominin
#Archeology
#SolutionUraniumSeries
#USeries
#MarosPangkep
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