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15 Leaps Forward in Our Understanding of Human Evolution in 2023
... 2.9 million years ago and found at the Nyayanga site in Kenya are seen in this undated handout image. ( T.W. ... series of excavations at a site near Lake Victoria in Kenya unearthed a collection of Oldowan stone tools that are ... no fossilized remnants of human ancestors at the site in Kenya. What they discovered instead were two huge molars that ...
ancient origins - 01/01/2024 - 16:55
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Humanity’s First Ancestor is 2 Million Years Old, Skull Fragment Reveals
... say our first ancestor walked around Lake Turkana, Kenya two million years ago! Early man and modern man are ... study focused on a skull fragment found in the 1970s in Kenya, previously dated to 1.78 million years old. However, ... – was discovered at Lake Turkana , in East Turkana, Kenya, in 1974. At that time, without the kind of technology ...
Sahir - 18/04/2021 - 22:54
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Earliest War Grave Found with 27 Slain People Dates Back 10,000 Years
... 10,000 years ago has been found west of Lake Nataruk in Kenya. The authors of a study say the broken skeletons of the ... war. The possible storage of food at the Nataruk site in Kenya appears to support Ferguson’s observations, and the ... image: One of the smashed skulls from Lake Nataruk, Kenya. Source: Mirazon Lahr et al By Mark Miller Earliest ...
Mark Miller - 21/01/2016 - 00:47
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10 Funny and Fascinating Wedding Rituals from Ancient History
... century! 1. Spitting on the Bride as a Blessing (Maasai, Kenya) Inhabiting the African Great Lakes region, the Maasai ...
Aleksa Vučković - 22/04/2023 - 18:53
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Study Dispels Human Meat Diet Hypothesis, Changing Evolutionary Story
... Thinking Reconstruction of the Homo erectus Turkana boy of Kenya with light clothing by Adrie and Alfons Kennis at the ... year old fossil bones with cut marks from Koobi Fora, Kenya were used in the latest study to understand the ...
Sahir - 25/01/2022 - 18:00
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Top Stories This Week: A Big Stink, a Sacred Clean Up, a Magic Brooch and More
... year old fossil bones with cut marks from Koobi Fora, Kenya were used in the latest study to understand the ...
ancient-origins - 01/02/2022 - 01:00
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Did Supernovae Inspire Our Hominin Ancestors to Walk Upright?
... (2010) based on the KNM-ER 1813 cranium (Koobi Fora, Kenya, dated 1.9 Ma). ( CC BY SA 4.0 ) Out of Torched Forests ...
ancient origins - 30/05/2019 - 14:05
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How a Woman Toppled the Legend of the Walls of Jericho: The Legacy of Kathleen Kenyon
According to the Bible, in the Book of Joshua, the Israelites encountered the city of Jericho as the first Canaanite stronghold they had to conquer in order to settle in their promised new land. In archaeological terms, Joshua the war lord, would have approached Jericho during the Late Bronze Age, circa 1400 BC. The Biblical legend has it that the Israelites destroyed the fortified walls of Jericho by circling it with the Ark of the Covenant for seven days. Or did they not?
Prof Willem Boshoff - 12/11/2018 - 15:57
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Large Cache of Stone Tools Used by Homo Erectus Unearthed in Sudan
... stone tools in Konso, Ethiopia and near Lake Turkana in Kenya, all of which dated to an astonishing 1.75 million ... hand axes or cleavers that were discovered in Ethiopia and Kenya. Never before, Professor Masojć points out, have stone ... of the Homo erectus Turkana Boy from the Nariokotome, Kenya site, exhibited in the Neanderthal Museum in Erkrath, ...
Nathan Falde - 26/04/2021 - 18:56
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Ancient DNA Data Fills in Thousands of Years of Human Movement and Genetic Adaptation in Africa
... Africa, including 4 from the coastal region of Kenya and Tanzania (~1,400-400 BP), 1 from interior Tanzania ... Modern Maasai herdsman herding goats in Serengeti, Kenya ( Public Domain ) The availability of past genomic ...
ancient-origins - 11/04/2019 - 01:30
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Denizens of South Africa’s Cradle of Humankind: The First Walking Apes
... of (left to right) Homo habilis (KNM-ER 1813, Koobi Fora, Kenya ∼1.8 million years old), an early Homo erectus ... stone tools from Lomekwi 3, West Turkana, Kenya . Nature. Available at: ...
Caleb Strom - 08/02/2022 - 14:00
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The Risky Paleo Diets of Our Ancestors (Video)
... excavation of KNM-ER 1808, a Homo erectus specimen, in Kenya unearthed insights into the perilous dietary choices of ... The excavation of KNM-ER 1808, a Homo erectus specimen, in Kenya unearthed insights into the perilous dietary choices of ...
Robbie Mitchell - 12/02/2024 - 23:29
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The Risky Paleo Diets of Our Ancestors (Video)
... excavation of KNM-ER 1808, a Homo erectus specimen, in Kenya unearthed insights into the perilous dietary choices of ... excavation of KNM-ER 1808, a Homo erectus specimen, in Kenya unearthed insights into the perilous dietary choices of ...
Robbie Mitchell - 18/02/2024 - 18:06
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The Faces of Ancient Hominids Brought to Life in Remarkable Detail
... of a male adult found on the west shore of Lake Turkana in Kenya in 1985. He became known as “Black Skull’ due to ... 1.8-million-year-old bone fragments found in Koobi Fora, Kenya, in 1972. He used stone tools and ate meat and plants. ... skeleton found in 1984 at Nariokotome near Lake Turkana in Kenya. It is the most complete early human skeleton ever ...
aprilholloway - 20/03/2020 - 23:26
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Five Things We Learned About Our Human Origins in 2018
... Africa A number of finds at the Olorgesailie Basin in Kenya have proven that humans were exhibiting modern behavior ... large, all-purpose handaxes from the Olorgesailie Basin in Kenya. ( Human Origins Program, Smithsonian ) Drawing of a ...
Sarah P Young - 21/01/2019 - 13:48
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Pre-human ancestors may have used tools to butcher animals 3.4 million years ago
... reported they'd found tools from 3.3 million years ago, in Kenya. Skulls of 1. Gorilla 2. Australopithecine 3. Homo ... go back 100,000 years earlier than the tools from Kenya. The researchers simulated trampling of bones and ...
Mark Miller - 23/08/2015 - 00:22
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When – and Why – Did People First Start Using Money?
... Conquering Chance Chinese coin from early 1400s found in Kenya by the author. Chapurukha Kusimba Archaeological ...
ancient-origins - 27/06/2017 - 01:57
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Cave Provides 78,000 Years of Cultural and Technological Evolution in East Africa
... Pitarch Panga ya Saidi has produced the oldest bead in Kenya, dating to ~65,000 years ago. At about 33,000 years ... The first substantial cave record from coastal Kenya ranges from the Middle Stone Age to the Iron Age, ...
ancient-origins - 10/05/2018 - 02:03
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Archaeological Discoveries Are Occurring Faster Than Ever
... ancient proteins. Mary Prendergast at National Museums of Kenya, CC BY-ND / The Conversation Biomolecules are making ...
ancient-origins - 24/12/2019 - 01:48
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Epic Voyage of Vasco da Gama Connected Europe to the East
... Pillar of Vasco da Gama in Malindi, in modern-day Kenya, erected on the return journey. (Mgiganteus / CC BY-SA ... In April, the fleet reached the coast of modern day Kenya. On the 14th of April, da Gama was in Malindi, where he ...
dhwty - 03/02/2020 - 13:55