Homo naledi were burying their dead at least 100,000 years before humans - Enlarge / Exploration team members Megan Berger and Rick Hunter navigat... - https://arstechnica.com/?p=1944345 #risingstarcavesystem #cradleofhumankind #paleoanthropology #humanevolution #anthropology #archaeology #homonaledi #science #hominin

Rivers and Lakes Enabled Early #Hominin #Dispersals in #Iran - A new model of #paleoclimate and #hydrology in Iran reveals favorable routes for Neanderthal and modern human expansions eastwards into Asia.

https://www.shh.mpg.de/2263040/iran_dispersal

An interesting new discovery about some of our remote relatives. Who else was making tools?

Discovery of 3m-year-old stone tools sparks prehistoric whodunnit

Presence of teeth from extinct #hominin challenges view that only members of #Homo genus used complex #tools.

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2023/feb/09/discovery-ancient-stone-tools-prehistoric-mystery-whodunnit

#Guardian

From Wikipedia, re Earth’s periods.

We hominins’ evolution is literally a speck on the vertical dividing line. (The labels to the right of the vertical line are for the color arcs to the left.)

Wikipedia notes that this chart is an alternate depiction of time, and is not indicative that time’s circular. Although, given our propensity for mucking things up for everything else …

#humans #hominin #evolution #earth #wikipedia

#archeology #anthropology #HumanEvolution curated news:

#Hominin #footprints 200k yrs older than thought

The #human work of studying #Neanderthals

Moral #behavior pays off

#Breakthu: #evolution of #color #patterns in #toads & #frogs

The #mystery #woman of #SanNicolasIsland

#NativeAmerican #DNA origins in western #Eurasia

The Sivatherium of Kish

The #brain doesn't create #consciousness

8 billion people: how evolution made it happen

These & more stories at:

https://flipboard.com/@curiouscurator/thinking-ape-v47ecmkez

RT @ed_hagen
Major new review of geological, climate, and ecological changes in Africa over the last 66 million years. Recommended for anyone interested in #hominin evolution.

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/brv.12644

RT @BruxellesLauren@twitter.com

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#paleontology #paleoanthropology #hominins #evolution An article published in the journal "Science Advances" reports a study of the hands of #Ardipithecus ramidus, a #hominin that lived about 4.4 million years ago.
https://english.netmassimo.com/2021/02/27/the-hands-of-ardipithecus-ramidus-offer-insights-on-the-evolution-of-hands-and-feet-in-hominins/

From 05 Feb: Neanderthals’ relatives climbed an erupting volcano 350,000 years ago - Enlarge / Local residents call the tracks Ciampate del Diavolo, or the Devil’s Path. R... https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/02/neanderthals-relatives-climbed-an-erupting-volcano-350000-years-ago/ #ancient-people-did-stuff #footprints #hominin-evolution #hominins #homo-heidelbergensis #ichnology #neanderthals #science #trackways #volcano