European Middle Pleistocene populations had similar dental traits, suggesting that the settlement of Europe was the product of intermittent dispersals into Europe from a “mother” population
Primates’ frontal sinuses could help to distinguish species; the study has been published on Science Advances
Investigating the diploic veins in skulls with premature suture fusion: a new study has been published on the Journal of Morphology
Ancient DNA is rarely well-preserved in fossils, so scientists need to recognize possible hybridization of early humans from skeletons
Galería de las Estatuas in Atapuerca could be one of Spain’s most ancient Neanderthal sites; a new study published on Quaternary Geochronology
Sahelanthropus, the oldest representative of humanity, was indeed bipedal… but that’s not all! A new study on the subject on Nature
DNA from ancient population in Southern China (Maludong or Red Deer Cave in the Yunnan province) suggests Native Americans’ East Asian roots
The famous Sterkfontein Caves deposit is one million years older than previously thought; a new study is published on PNAS
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
