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What our relative may have looked like. CREDIT Chuang Zhao

June 25, 2021

Homo longi: extinct human species that may replace Neanderthals as our closest relatives found in China

Anthony Sinclair, University of Liverpool

A new analysis of a ‘lost’ skull rewrites the recent family tree of the human species, showing our closest relatives lived in China.

Nicolas Primola/Shutterstock

July 10, 2019

Oldest human skull outside Africa identified as 210,000 years old

Anthony Sinclair, University of Liverpool

New research suggests humans spread to Europe at least 50,000 years earlier than previously thought.

By about 320,000 years ago, humans in Kenya began using color pigments and manufacturing more sophisticated tools. Human Origins Program, Smithsonian

March 15, 2018

The revolution that wasn’t: African tools push back the origins of human technological innovation

Patrick Randolph-Quinney, University of Lancashire and Anthony Sinclair, University of Liverpool

Scientists have discovered sophisticated tools in Kenya that are much older than expected.

Rock art. Zach Snavely/Shutterstock

January 8, 2017

How forensic science can unlock the mysteries of human evolution

Patrick Randolph-Quinney, Northumbria University, Newcastle; Anthony Sinclair, University of Liverpool, and Emma Nelson, University of Liverpool

New ways of using forensic science in anthropology have been developed to advance our understanding of the past.

Third-year archaeology student Dominic Coe replicates a painting of rhino based on the original image in France’s Grotte Chauvet. Supplied

January 4, 2017

Why we built an artificial cave to teach our students about ancient art

Anthony Sinclair, University of Liverpool; Emma Nelson, University of Liverpool; Jason Hall, University of Liverpool, and Patrick Randolph-Quinney, University of Lancashire

In an ideal world, students might visit original cave sites to see ancient paintings in their natural setting. This isn’t possible, so the idea of an artificial cave set-up at a university was born.

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