Discovered in Portugal in 1998, the individual dubbed the “Lapedo Child” has long perplexed scientists, thanks to a curious ...
Imagine the scene, around 3 million years ago in what is now east Africa. By the side of a river, an injured antelope keels ...
Mixodectes pungens, a species of small mammal that inhabited western North America in the early Paleocene, was a mystery.
Olduvai Gorge is a Unesco World Heritage site. It became well known in 1959 through the pioneering work of palaeontologists Louis and Mary Leakey, whose discoveries of early human remains reshaped our ...
They instead dated the charcoal and animal bones around the skeleton to between 27,700 and 29,700 years ... the skeleton by measuring part of a protein that's found primarily in human bones. Examining ...
Advanced radiocarbon dating has provided the most accurate age assessment yet for the “Lapedo Child,” one of the most provocative prehistoric human skeletons ever discovered. But the results ...
They instead dated the charcoal and animal bones around the skeleton to between 27,700 and ... part of a protein that's found primarily in human bones. open image in gallery Forearm bone fragments ...
The site has yielded fully articulated human skeletons carefully positioned in burial positions, thousands of ochre fragments ...