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Michael J. O’Brien was born in Houston in 1950 and graduated from St. Thomas High School in Houston in 1968. His undergraduate degree is from Rice University (1972) and his Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Austin (1977). After graduation he served as a research associate at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln until 1980, when he joined the University of Missouri as an assistant professor of anthropology and director of the American Archaeology Division, the research arm of the anthropol...

The scientists also recovered nuclear DNA from the two Siberian caves , the Denisova and Chagyrskaya, which also housed Neanderthal populations in the distant past. The Neanderthal residents of Denisova lived there approximately 120,000 years ago, while the occupants of Chagyrskaya were alive much more recently, approximately 62,000 to 72,000 years ago. Interestingly, a closer analysis of the genetic material taken from two levels at Galería de las Estatuas revealed that it belonged to two se...

Study Reexamines Remains from Spain’s Gran Dolina Cave BURGOS, SPAIN— Live Sciencereports that the remains known as “The Boy of Gran Dolina” actually belonged to a young girl, based upon microscopic dental analysis which has been used to identify sex in other human species. The remains of 22 individuals, discovered in 1994 in Grand Dolina Cave, which is located in northern Spain’s Atapuerca Mountains, have been identified as Homo antecessor, a species that lived in Europe betw...

April 17, 2021 Homo sapiens, rose in Africa some 300,000 years ago. The objects that early humans made and used, known as the Middle Stone Age material culture, are found throughout much of Africa and include a vast range of innovations. Among them are bow and arrow technology, specialized tool forms, the long-distance transport of objects such as marine shells and obsidian, personal ornamentation, the use of pigments, water storage, and art. Although it is possible that other ancestors of mode...

Date Time Boomerangs return with greater insights into ample uses If you thought all boomerangs were used solely for throwing and – hopefully – returning then think again, because new research by a team of Griffith University archaeologists suggests that Aboriginal Australians employed the traditional curved wooden objects for so many more purposes. PhD candidate Eva Martellotta at the Australian Museum. The team from Griffith’s Australian Research Centre for Human Evolution (ARCHE) analy...

Scientists in Israel are growing date plants from 2,000-year-old seeds. Dr. Elaine Solowey, director of the Center for Sustainable Agriculture of the Arava Institute, and Dr. Sarah Sallon, director of the Louis L. Borick Natural Medicine Research Center of Hadassah Hospital, harvested 111 ancient Judean dates from 2,000-year-old seeds. The ground-breaking agriculture techniques to make the seemingly botanically impossible feat possible grabbed global headlines in 2020. Dates from the date-palm...

Date Time Joyful Screams Perceived More Strongly than Screams of Fear or Anger The human scream signals more than fear of imminent danger or entanglement in social conflicts. Screaming can also express joy or excitement. For the first time, researchers at the University of Zurich have demonstrated that non-alarming screams are even perceived and processed by the brain more efficiently than their alarming counterparts. When a person screams out in pleasure, other people perceive this more strong...

The image above is obviously wrong, deliberately. So is the original by Michelangelo. God isnt a gorilla. God even isnt. Perusing through the scientific record, there is strong evidence that other species of sapiens have trodden the earth. There is a strong chance too that we, the sapiens of sapiens, managed to make them disappear with our rat-like breeding and our avaricious needs... Unless they vanished from lack of survival skills in changing habitats... unless they were wiped out by diseas...

Bone tools found in Riwi Cave in the Kimberley, WA. Credit: Michelle Langley New research has reappraised the age of bone artefacts found in a famous Kimberley cave site as being more than 35,000 years old, making them among the oldest bone tools found in Australia. Published in the International Journal of Osteoarchaeology, the team of scientists from across Australia analysed eight bone artefacts from Riwi Cave in Mimbi country in south-central Kimberley, Western Australia. Dr Michelle Langle...

Ancient Bone Tools in WA Dated to Be Over 35,000 Years Old Four bone tools discovered in Western Australia have changed how archaeologists think of ancient northern Australian indigenous societies after the tools were reevaluated to be between 35,000 and 47,000 years old—making them among the oldest of their kind in Australia. The findings published in the International Journal of Osteoarchaeology in February come after a similar discovery in 2016 of a roughly 46,000-year-old nose piercing ...