Tools at Aranbaltza offer clues to Neanderthal extinction in the Iberian Peninsula, even before Homo sapiens arrived
A paper in the journal The Anatomical Record presents a taphonomic-forensic analysis of the skulls from the Sima de los Huesos
The pattern of North-South extinction in Hipparion ambiguum – an extinct genus of the Equidae family – is confirmed
The CENIEH in collaboration with CNRPAH leads a study reporting the discovery of the oldest Acheulean lithic assemblage found in North Africa, dated to about 1.7 million years
A paper in Scientific Reports concludes that Homo antecessor had a shoulders development analogous to that in Homo sapiens, although its growth was faster
The molar size relationship is one of the peculiar characteristics of the different species of hominins and various theories have been proposed
A new study on the brain of Homo erectus analyzes its temporal lobes and compares these with other species like H. ergaster and H. sapiens
There are different ways to tackle the questions of whether the culture ofdeath precedes Neanderthals and anatomically modern humans
An unprecedented 3D reconstruction of pre-Columbian crania from the Caribbean and South America will allow further investigations
A new study, publisheed in PaleoAnthropology, shows that Amud 9 was a Neandertal woman weighing 60 kg who lived in the Late Pleistocene