Briana Pobiner

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Several fossils with possible cut marks from Grăunceanu, Romania. Briana Pobiner

Tiny cut marks on animal bone fossils reveal that human ancestors were in Romania 1.95 million years ago

Briana Pobiner, Smithsonian Institution; Sabrina Curran, Ohio University, and Virgil Drãgușin, Academia Română

Researchers reexamining fossils identified telltale marks made by human ancestors cutting meat from bones. The discovery pushes back the date hominins started living in Europe by 200,000 years.
Ilustração mostra carcaça de preguiça gigante enquanto um dos ocupantes do Abrigo de Santa Elina trabalha na fabricação de joias com seus ossos. Júlia D’Oliveira

Joias de ossos de preguiça gigante encontradas no Brasil entram no debate da ocupação humana das Américas

Mírian Liza Alves Forancelli Pacheco, Universidade Federal de São Carlos (UFSCar); Briana Pobiner, Smithsonian Institution, and Thais Rabito Pansani, Universidade Federal de São Carlos (UFSCar)

Novas evidências arqueológicas reforçam a hipótese de que a ocupação de humanos modernos nas Américas ocorreu muito antes do que se pensava
Footprints, preserved in solidified ash, hint at human behavior from as long as 19,000 years ago. Cynthia Liutkus-Pierce

Prehistoric human footprints reveal a rare snapshot of ancient human group behavior

William E.H. Harcourt-Smith, Lehman College, CUNY and Briana Pobiner, Smithsonian Institution

The footprints of over 20 different prehistoric people, pressed into volcanic ash thousands of years ago in Tanzania, show possible evidence for sexual division of labor in this ancient community.

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