In the early 1980s, anthropologist Tim ... on paper -- rely on a detailed knowledge of anatomy to put muscle and flesh on fossil bones. For one of his works, sculptor John Gurche started with ...

An analysis looking at the hand bones of australopithecines, apes and humans reveals that tool use likely evolved before the ...

Their dream came spectacularly true on that momentous day in 1974. The Lucy fossil preserved skull fragments and a lower jaw with teeth, as well as parts of the arm, leg, pelvis, spine and ribs—47 ...

The bone preserved just enough anatomy for the paleontologist to ... Like everyone else, Krause assumed the bone was from an early modern human. He had developed a method for distinguishing ...

The discovery of an impeccably preserved Celtic burial chamber in southern Germany is a "stroke of luck for archaeology," ...

But many early modern humans also lived in caves - some of the most famous ... However, they did have a similar vocal anatomy and their ear bones suggest they had a similar range of hearing to us. The ...

For example, imagine a useful but fairly complex innovation like bone harpoon ... a momentous step in human evolution (Figure 2). With sharp flakes and simple core tools, early hominins could ...

2024 — Geneticists have deciphered the prehistory of aurochs -- the animals that were the focus of some of the most iconic early human art -- by analyzing 38 genomes harvested from bones dating ...

A new study has raised the argument that humans' historic hunger for meat might not have been so universal in the ancient world, as evidenced by early humans in the Andes ... but the isotopic ...

A better first step for early ... muscle and bone strength. Being underweight can also reduce oestrogen levels in girls and women, and oestrogen plays an important role in bone structure.

found that several bones had been used as tools called re-touchers. UCL Institute of Archaeology A pile of stone shards produced when an early human knelt to create a stone hand axe. The imprint ...

What do sudden anxiety attacks, unexplained weight loss, and crippling fatigue all have in common? They can all be caused by ...