An estimated 1.75 million ibises were deposited at a single location in ancient Egypt. But the birds disappeared entirely from the region around 1850, and no one knows why.
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The sounds our ancestors made are important because they teach us about spaces and behaviour and rituals of the time.
Working with bone artefacts from archaeological sites in South Africa’s southern Cape region, we’ve been able to show that some implements might have been used for sound production in the past.
While the science is crucial, it is also important to know what sense the people who live in and around Laetoli make of these ancient footprints.
Reports say that a new species of ancient human has been identified in a cave in The Philippines. But only a few bone and teeth fossil fragments have been found, so far.
The first mummy was wrapped up about 7,000 years ago, and it was from South America.
The teeth from two Neanderthal children and a relatively modern human child reveal their exposure to seasonal changes during their early life.
Ancient DNA in a 50,000+ year old bone tells us that two species of early humans did produce offspring together.
How we found the oldest human fossil ever discovered outside Africa and the Levant.
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Research Associate, African Centre for Coastal Palaeoscience, Nelson Mandela University
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Professor, University of the Witwatersrand
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Associate professor, University of Johannesburg
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Director, ARC Centre of Excellence for Australian Biodiversity and Heritage (CABAH), University of Wollongong
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Associate Professor of Archaeology, Griffith University
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Postdoctoral fellow, University of Tübingen
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Director, Australian Research Centre for Human Evolution, Griffith University
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Honorary researcher, Evolutionary Studies Institute, University of the Witwatersrand
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Director and Virginia M. Ullman Professor of Natural History and the Environment, Institute of Human Origins, Arizona State University
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Lecturer in Mediterranean Prehistory, University of Malta
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Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Yale University
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Professor in the Australian Research Centre for Human Evolution & Griffith Centre for Social and Cultural Research, Griffith University
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Professor, School of Natural Sciences, Macquarie University
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Senior Lecturer in Human Genetics, The University of Melbourne
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Max Planck Institute of Geoanthropology