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Understanding the evolution, dispersals, behaviors, and ecologies of early African Homo sapiens requires accurate geochronological placement of fossils and artifacts. We introduce open-air occurrences of such remains in sediments of the Middle Awash study area in Ethiopia. We describe the stratigraphic and depositional contexts of our discoveries and demonstrate the effectiveness of recently developed uranium-series dating of ostrich eggshell at validating and bridging across more traditional ra...

Neanderthals engraved a deer bone more than 50,000 years ago CNN 15 hrs ago By Katie Hunt, CNN © V. Minkus/NLD The giant deer bone has no practical use and is believed to be purely decorative. A tiny piece of bone that once belonged to a giant Ice Age deer is changing how we think about Neanderthals. Found in Einhornhöhle cave in northern Germany, the decorated deer phalanx, or toe bone, features an engraved geometric pattern and has been dated, using several techniques, t...

A tiny bone is changing how we think about Neanderthals CNN 6th July, 2021 11:31:30 AM A tiny piece of bone that once belonged to a giant Ice Age deer is changing how we think about Neanderthals. Found in Einhornhöhle cave in northern Germany, the decorated deer phalanx, or toe bone, features an engraved geometric pattern and has been dated, using several techniques, to at least 51,000 years old. It refreshes the debate over to what extent Neanderthals, the heavily built Stone Age hominins tha...

The oldest human burial in Africa was a toddler laid to rest with a pillow elisfkc2 / Flickr / CC BY-SA 2.0 A toddler laid to rest with their head on a pillow in a cave in eastern Kenya is thought to be the oldest human burial ever found in Africa. The remains of the child, who was between 2 ½ and 3 years old, date back 78,000 years and were found buried at the mouth of the Panga ya Saidi cave, according to new research published Wednesday in the journal Nature. Analysis of the cave sedime...