Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – The shift from dense forests to open plains in Africa may have caused our ancient ancestors to change their vocal calls, research involving Durham University anthropologists has found. The researchers studied audible orangutan calls in a South
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – For more than 50 years, dental anthropologists have studied variation in the shape of human teeth to study the patterns of migration that people took as they populated the world. The last major continental migration
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – There may still be vanished human species unknown to scientists. A research team has discovered an unusual 300,000-year-old jawbone with an unexpected combination of archaic and modern human features. A computer reconstruction of the skull
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – One of the hottest debates in archaeology is how and when humans first arrived in North America. Archaeologists have traditionally argued that people walked through an ice-free corridor that briefly opened between ice sheets an
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – A new research paper finds that genetic material from Neanderthal ancestors may have contributed to the propensity of some people today to be “early risers,” the sort of people who are more comfortable getting up
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Hunting the now-extinct straight-tusked elephant (Palaeoloxodon antiquus) was widespread among Neanderthals, concludes a research team. In the study published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences scientists write that they have closely examined the
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – A new study has clarified differences in the physical characteristics of rocks used by early humans during the Paleolithic. Scientists found that humans selected rock for a variety of reasons and not just because of
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – AncientPages.com – For decades, we believed that outside ice ages Europe was mostly covered by dense forest before the arrival of modern humans. Now, a new study shows that there was far more open and semi-open
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Infants and toddlers may be psychologically wired to thrive with high levels of “sensitive care” and personal attention, according to a study conducted with contemporary hunter-gatherer societies. Research led by an evolutionary anthropologist at Cambridge
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – A new study has cast doubt on claims that Homo naledi, a small-brained hominin dating to between 335,000 and 241,000 years ago, deliberately buried their dead and produced rock art in Rising Star Cave, South
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – We may never know the thoughts and emotions of our long-gone ancestors. Still, we can gain plenty of other valuable information based on archaeological discoveries and DNA studies. It is also fascinating to see what
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Marina Ascunce, currently at the USDA-ARS, and colleagues, report these findings in a study published in the journal PLOS ONE. Credit: Adobe Stock – Gorodenkoff The human louse is a wingless, blood-sucking parasite that lives its entire life
