What did the face of our ancestors looks like 3 million years ago? Meet the reconstructed skull of “Little Foot” which provides valuable insights into how our ancestors adapted to their environment.
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A new discovery could reshape how we interpret the fossil record of humans and their closest relatives.
300,000-year-old wooden tools found in southwestern China reveal surprising sophistication from the ancestors of modern humans.
Not knowing exactly when regular meat consumption became part of our ancestors’ diets is a gap in our understanding of human evolution.
At a global level it is rare to find fossilised hominin tracks.
A photo of Lucy’s reconstructed skeleton next to a live four-year-old girl shows how human Lucy was – and how small.
The exhibit offers a close look at the problematic history of palaeoanthropology.
What could the extinction of Neanderthals tell us about our own species? An archaeologist explains in The Conversation Weekly podcast.
The findings reveal a close association between climatic conditions and early human migrations out of Africa.
Trackway findings support the notion of southern Africa being one region where human cognitive and practical ability developed a very long time ago.
Ammoglyphs – ancient ‘sand art’ – are a relatively new find.
Africa’s large mammal heritage has formed a deep cultural legacy for all of humankind.
If we go far enough back in time, we all share an ancestor. And some of the features found in our bones and bodies today are a testament to that.
Without intervention, the rock may have been destroyed by high tides and storm surges.
Human tracks registered in aeolianites - cemented dune surfaces - are rare at a global level.
Studying the lower back allows researchers to understand how the species’ anatomy was adapted for different kinds of movement.
The fossil material was recovered from the surface of a tight, narrow passage that can only be accessed with difficulty by one person at a time.
Knowing that our North African ancestors were making handaxes helps scientists to understand how our human ancestors spread across the African continent.
It appears that the South African Cape south coast’s dunes and beaches formed a vast canvas of sand on which our ancestors could leave their mark.
These surfaces are of profound scientific, cultural, heritage, environmental, and aesthetic importance. Unfortunately, they are threatened - by graffiti.
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Research Associate, African Centre for Coastal Palaeoscience, Nelson Mandela University
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Lecturer, University of Cambridge
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Associate professor in Vertebrate Palaeontology, University of the Witwatersrand
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Professor of Archaeology, University of the Witwatersrand
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Adjunct Senior Researcher at Griffith University and La Trobe University, and Ramón y Cajal (Senior) Research Fellow, Centro Nacional de Investigación sobre la Evolución Humana (CENIEH)
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Lecturer in Archaeology, University of York
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Associate Professor in Earth Sciences, University of Adelaide, University of Wollongong
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Professor in Geochronology and Geochemistry, Southern Cross University
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Professor of Evolutionary Studies, Professor of African Prehistory, University of Bergen
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Senior Lecturer, University of Leicester
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Archéologue et chercheur au CNRS, Auteurs historiques The Conversation France; Université de Toulouse
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Senior Researcher in African Quaternary Archaeology and Hominin Palaeoecology (University of Cambridge and University of the Witwatersrand), University of the Witwatersrand
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Postdoctor in archaeology at SapienCE, University of Bergen
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PhD Researcher, La Trobe University
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Research Scientist, Institute of Human Origins and Associate Professor, School of Human Evolution and Social Change, Arizona State University