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Jayne Wilkins, Griffith University and Sechaba Maape, University of the Witwatersrand A rockshelter in South Africa’s Kalahari documents the innovative behaviours of early humans who lived there 105,000 years ago. We report the new evidence today in Nature. The...
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A panoramic view of the interior of the Blombos Cave, which holds fascinating insights into human evolution. Supplied Christopher Henshilwood, University of the Witwatersrand and Karen Loise van Niekerk, University of Bergen The origins of “modern human behaviour”...
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Eleanor Scerri, Author provided Julien Louys, Griffith University; Gilbert Price, The University of Queensland; Huw Groucutt, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, and Michael Petraglia, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History If you...
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Researchers work on the archaeological site in Spain, known as Porto Maior, where the tool deposits were found. Eduardo Méndez Quintas, Author provided Martina Demuro; Lee Arnold, and Mathieu Duval, Griffith University Even our earliest human ancestors made and used...
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Just like us, but different: recently-discovered Homo sapiens fossils have a modern face, but an ancient brain case. Philipp Gunz, MPI EVA Leipzig, CC BY-NC-SA Renaud Joannes-Boyau, Southern Cross University The earliest known existence of modern humans, or Homo...
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Traditional ceremonial dress at Mount Hagan, Papua New Guinea. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA Darren Curnoe, UNSW Sydney Can there be any more important a question than, ‘How did we get here?’ Of course, I don’t mean those books we all gawked at as tweens desperate to...