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ancient humans

How fossil footprints are revealing the joy and fear of Stone Age life

Humans

How fossil footprints are revealing the joy and fear of Stone Age life

A new wave of archaeological investigations is reconstructing intimate details of our ancestors' lives from fossilised footprints. They give us glimpses of everything from parent-child relationships to the thrill of a giant sloth hunt

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RCHDGR . Die Pithecanthropus-Schichten auf Java. Geologische und palaontologische Ergebnisse der Trinil-Expedition (1907 und 1908), ausgefuhrt mit Unterstutzung der Akademischen Jubilaumsstiftung der Stadt Berlin und der Koniglich bayerischen Akademi der Wissenschaften. Geology; Paleontology; Homo erectus. Sdenka-Trinu-Expedition. Tafel III.. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original work.. Selenka, Lenore; Blanckenhorn, Max Ludwig

Humans

Fate of buried Java Man revealed in unseen notes from Homo erectus dig

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Visualizing inferred human ancestral lineages over time and space. Each line represents an ancestor-descendant relationship in our inferred genealogy of modern and ancient genomes. The width of a line corresponds to how many times the relationship is observed, and lines are colored on the basis of the estimated age of the ancestor.

Humans

Largest ever family tree of humanity reveals our species' history

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View of the excavations at the entrance of Grotte Mandrin

Humans

Modern humans moved into cave one year after Neanderthals abandoned it

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human fossils

Humans

160,000-year-old fossil may be the first Denisovan skull we've found

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percussion notches on large bovid humerus

Humans

Ancient humans may have started hunting 2 million years ago

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HT3KM2 Danebury Hill Fort, c2nd century BC, (c1990-2010). Artist: Karen Guffogg. Reconstruction drawing. Celtic / Iron age, approx. 2nd century BC. Built in the 6th century BC, the fort was in use for almost 500 years, during a period when the number of hill forts in Wessex greatly increased. Danebury was remodelled several times, making it more complex and resulting in it becoming a developed hill fort

Humans

Bronze Age migration may have brought Celtic languages to Britain

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London's Cartoon Museum

Mind

Laughter Lab at London's Cartoon Museum explores the science of humour

Culture

A man measures a woman's height

Humans

Humans have been relatively short for thousands of years

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Dorsal and ventral views of the pendant. Scale bar is 1 cm. ? Antonino Vazzana - BONES Lab

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Mammoth ivory pendant is oldest decorated jewellery found in Eurasia

A pendant carved with mysterious dots and unearthed in a Polish cave is thought to be over 40,000 years old

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Humans

Why do we grieve? The surprising origin of the feeling of loss

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Humans

Why are we good and evil? A single quality may be at the root of it

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Life

Why do we exist? The meaning of life isn’t to be found in the stars

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Humans

Lost capital city of the Mongol Empire was far bigger than thought

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