Fossils show man walked 3 million years ago — Science News, February 16, 1974
Anthropologist D. Carl Johanson … has discovered a skull fragment, shin and thigh bones of a 3-million-year-old man in Ethiopia…. The bones…
Category: Arch/ Anthro
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Ancient primates’ unchipped teeth hint that they ate mostly fruit
Soft fruits may have been the main dish on some ancient primate menus.
An analysis of hundreds of fossilized primate teeth from the Fayum Depression, a desert basin in Egypt, shows just a handful were fractured, researchers report…
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Dallas City Council Votes to Remove Massive Confederate War Memorial
In a 11-4 vote, the City Council decided to remove the 65-foot-tall monument from its location in the heart of the city
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Oldest Known Macroscopic Skeletal Organism Was Masquerading as Fossilized Feces
Some researchers initially dismissed the remains of Palaeopascichnus lineari as teeny turds from a bygone era
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1,700-Year-Old Sock Spins Yarn About Ancient Egyptian Fashion
This stripy toe sock appears to have warmed the foot of a tot in the late antiquity period
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New Research Dispels the Myth That Ancient Cultures Had Universally Short Lifespans
Teeth are key to identifying elderly remains
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The Dutch Nearly Beat James Cook to New Zealand
A shipwreck discovered off New Zealand dates to a time before Cook’s arrival
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