Anthropology.netTwo children buried on the Patagonian coast ~10,500 years ago are now the oldest human burials in the region — and they were eating seafood. The Atlantic route into South America just got a lot more interesting. #Archaeology #Paleoanthropology #HumanOrigins https://www.anthropology.net/p/two-children-under-the-beach-ridge
New study: Neanderthal brain differences from modern humans are smaller than the variation between two living human populations today. The cognitive inferiority argument doesn’t survive the math. #Neanderthals #Paleoanthropology #HumanEvolution https://www.anthropology.net/p/the-measure-of-a-neanderthal-mind
New research maps Neanderthal and Homo sapiens habitats across Europe 60,000–34,000 yrs ago. The habitat was fine. What differed was how well each group’s territories were connected to each other — and that may have made all the difference. #Neanderthals #HumanEvolution #Paleoanthropology https://www.anthropology.net/p/the-network-problem-what-spatial
New research: less than 0.1% of the human genome predicts spoken language ability better than all the rest combined. And Neanderthals may have carried more of it than living humans do. #HumanEvolution #Genetics #Paleoanthropology https://www.anthropology.net/p/the-ancient-switches-behind-human
Malaria shaped where our ancestors could live across Africa for 74,000 years — long before farming, long before cities. A new model maps the ancient geography of avoidance. #Paleoanthropology #HumanEvolution #Malaria https://www.anthropology.net/p/the-geography-of-avoidance-malaria
The Geography of Avoidance: Malaria Shaped Where Early Homo sapiens Could Live for 74,000 Years
A reconstruction of ancient malaria transmission risk across sub-Saharan Africa shows that hunter-gatherer populations consistently avoided high-risk zones — with consequences that echo nowadays
Cave bears dominated bone counts at a Galician Paleolithic cave, but ZooMS shows they mostly denned and died there. Horse was a major prey animal. Collagen told a different story. #Paleoanthropology #Zooarchaeology #Neanderthals https://www.anthropology.net/p/what-the-bear-teeth-were-hiding-zooms
Kabua 1: a Kenyan fossil found in the 1950s, with archaic vault walls and a distinctly modern chin, now dated to at least 64,000 years. New morphometric analysis places it within H. sapiens, mostly. #Paleoanthropology #HumanEvolution #LatePleistocene @katharv.bsky.social @chrisbstringer.bsky.social @hugoreyes.bsky.social https://www.anthropology.net/p/the-kabua-1-skull-what-a-long-neglected
The Kabua 1 Skull: What a Long-Neglected Kenyan Fossil Says About Late Pleistocene Human Diversity
Dated to at least 64,000 years old, the Kabua 1 cranium is mostly Homo sapiens and partly something harder to place.
At least 7 Neanderthals from one Polish cave, ~100,000 years old — some possibly related. Their mitochondrial DNA links them to a lineage once spread from France to the Caucasus. #Neanderthals #AncientDNA #Paleoanthropology https://www.anthropology.net/p/a-small-group-in-a-polish-cave-and
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Humans May Be Far Older Than We Thought - New Scientists
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Humans May Be Far Older Than We Thought
Was “behavioral modernity” ever a useful concept — or just a convenient label we’re ready to retire? New work argues Neanderthal evidence has made the concept unworkable. 🧠 #Neanderthals #Paleoanthropology #HumanEvolution https://www.anthropology.net/p/its-time-to-retire-behavioral-modernity
