Humans butchered a rhino in a remote part of the Philippines 700,000 years ago, but who were they and how did they get there?
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Children in the distant past were put to work early, reveal footprints.
A new study estimates the nutritional value of human flesh and challenges the belief that prehistoric humans engaged in cannibalism just to fill their stomachs.
Scientists are hoping that ancient stone tools found on a family farm in Kenya will add to a clearer picture of the first appearance, duration and variation of prehistoric technologies found so far.
New fossil finds show the first large-bodied inhabitants of an isolated Indonesian island evolved to Hobbit-size, but they always remembered how to make and use stone tools.
The big question being asked is: where does Homo naledi fit in the evolutionary tree? Assessing the similarity or dissimilarity between fossil skulls has provided a possible clue to the answer.
Despite science refuting the existence of different human races, people have used “race” throughout history to divide and denigrate certain people while promoting their claims of superiority.
Despite claims about its age, puzzling combinations of features from Homo naledi gives it an uncanny resemblance to human beings.
The era in which humans have had the power to alter the conditions for all life on Earth is widely thought to have begun with the Industrial Revolution 250 years ago. This era has been dubbed the “Anthropocene…
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Professor of Archaeology, Griffith University
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Associate Professor in Hominin Palaeoecology, Bournemouth University
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Senior Lecturer in Palaeolithic Archaeology, University of Southampton
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Paleoanthropologist, University of Wisconsin-Madison
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Lecturer in African Studies, Yale University
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Professor in Archaeology, University of New England
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Researcher of Prehistoric Archaeology, Université Paul Valéry – Montpellier III
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Emeritus Research Professor of African Ecology, University of the Witwatersrand
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Professor of Archaeological Science, Flinders University
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Professor of Anthropology, University of Tennessee
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