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National Geographic has an interesting story on hair found in hyena coprolites. The coprolites were in strata that date to about 195,000-257,000 years ago.
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One of the biggest debates in North American archaeology concerns the timing of the peopling of the America’s. Basically, it boils down to Clovis or Pre-Clovis. One of the more interesting thing about this debate is the way archaeological evidence gets used and critiqued by the various participants.
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In place of today’s ‘Know Your Primate” (which will be back next week) I present the following picture:
Filed under: Paleoanthropology | Tagged: Homo antecessor, Homo heidelbergensis | 2 Comments »
Greg Laden has a write up of the 1.1-1.2 MYA find at Atapuerca. I mentioned this story last year and the find has finally been published. I will have more to say about this in a later post (there are several other papers out that relate – I also plan on writing about the Homo floresiensis paper and the Orrorin tugenensis paper as well). In the meantime a second paper relating to Atapuerca came out in January.
Filed under: Hominina, Hominini, Homo, Homo heidelbergensis, Osteology, Paleoanthropology | Tagged: Homo antecessor, Homo heidelbergensis | 4 Comments »
