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September 2011 Archeology - Early Humans
« on: September 04, 2011, 06:57:01 pm »
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Homo erectus led he way in toolmaking:
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/01/science/01tools.html
 
The La Cotte de St Brelade site is suggesting Neanderthals were a bit more technologically adept than previously thought:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-14677434

The press sure loves that Neanderthal-Homo sapiens interbreeding story:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/health/new-health/paul-taylor/nookie-with-neanderthals-may-have-pumped-up-immune-systems/article2141831/

... good/better commentary:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/punctuated-equilibrium/2011/sep/01/1
 
Ice Age mariners in Greece:
http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-08-volcanic-artifacts-imply-ice-age-mariners.html

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Re: September 2011 Archeology - Early Humans
« Reply #1 on: September 11, 2011, 10:59:41 am »
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Australopithecus is now being touted as the 'missing link':
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2011-09/m-hth090711.php

Opinion piece thereon:
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/tomchiversscience/100104050/australopithecus-sediba-can-we-stop-calling-it-a-missing-link/

... and this reconstruction of 'virtual brains' of human ancestors seems somehow connected to the above:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-14822438
 
... as is this 'hand analysis':
http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-09-handier-homo-habilis.html

A gallery of human ancestors:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/gallery/2011/sep/08/human-evolution-ancestors

A sort of 'how human evolution worked' piece:
http://chronicle.com/article/How-Our-Brains-Got-BigOur/128878/?sid=wb&utm_source=wb&utm_medium=en

Apparently humans were interbreeding with more than Neanderthals (I think this is a different story, but not much):
http://www.livescience.com/15911-humans-interbred-extinct-relatives.html
 
Donald C Johanson tells why he studies human evolution:
http://thechart.blogs.cnn.com/2011/09/08/lucy-discoverer-why-i-study-human-evolution/

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Re: September 2011 Archeology - Early Humans
« Reply #2 on: September 18, 2011, 12:43:23 pm »
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After all the hype of humans mating with Neanderthals, we're now being told it didn't happen often:
http://news.discovery.com/human/neanderthal-human-intercourse-110913.html
 
... and the BBC is just picking up on the original story now:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-14947363
 
Otherwise, we are learning that Neanderthal types were dining on shellfish earlier than previously thought:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/spain/8765346/Neanderthal-man-lived-on-seafood-far-earlier-than-previously-thought.html
 
An item on bringing fossils to the computer age seems to touch on some of the above and more:
http://www.spiegel.de/international/spiegel/0,1518,784921,00.html

Remains of a Neanderthal girl from Pinlla del Valle (Spain):
http://www.elpais.com/articulo/madrid/Hallados/restos/nina/neandertal/Pinilla/Valle/elpepusoccie/20110913elpmad_1/Tes

Latest theory about Otzi:
http://news.yahoo.com/otzi-icemans-20th-anniversary-comes-scenario-071743745.html

... and marking the twentieth anniversary of his finding:
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/crucial-mummy-found-20-years-ago-monday-012054612.html

The Paleo diet is getting press attention again:
http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-09-grain-caveman-diet-gains-traction.html

Remains of a mousterian (?) era tool from Spain:
http://prehistoria.urv.es/es/node/445

Pondering what happened to Neanderthals:
http://summitcountyvoice.com/2011/09/17/archaeology-were-did-the-neanderthals-go/

More on A. Sediba:
http://www.sciencefriday.com/program/archives/201109092

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Re: September 2011 Archeology - Early Humans
« Reply #3 on: September 25, 2011, 10:53:39 am »
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The latest homo erectus find from Indonesia:
http://www.newswise.com/articles/ui-led-team-sheds-light-on-ice-age-human-evolution-in-asia

On the DNA front, latest research suggests humans settled in eastern Asia in two waves:
http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-09-aboriginal-australians-explorers.html
 

... and the San people split from other African populations some 130 000 years b.p.:
http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-09-technique-genomes-human-migrations.html

Giving various Australopithecines the CT scan treatment:
http://asunews.asu.edu/20110920_FamilyTree
 
Feature on Oetzi:
http://news.discovery.com/history/iceman-discovery-110919.html

More on A. Sediba:
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2011/sep2011/foss-s23.shtml

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