Researchers of the Department of Human Evolution at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, in collaboration with…
A 9,000 year-old case of human decapitation has been found in the rock shelter of Lapa do Santo in Brazil
Few Amerindian habits impressed the…
Victoriapithecus had a small brain relative to its body size with an olfactory bulb about three times as large as that in present-day monkeys
The…
Lake Mungo may have inspired Australians to reinvent boat use in the middle of the desert 24,000 years ago
Geologists and archaeologists from the Max…
Modern humans occupied the Near East 45,900 years ago and colonized Europe from there
A multinational team led by researchers from the Max Planck…
Members of our species Homo sapiens belonging to the Protoaurignacian culture may have been the ultimate cause for the demise of Neandertals,…
Bone collagen sequences prove that South American native ungulates are closely related to horses, rhinos and tapirs but not to elephants
The South…
Digital makeover of iconic human fossil sheds light on human origins
State-of-the-art computer reconstruction of the original fossil of Homo habilis,…
Pre-Homo human ancestral species, such as Australopithecus africanus, used human-like hand postures much earlier than was previously thought
Some of…
Modern humans may have migrated into Austria around 43,500 years ago during a period with a cold steppe-like climate
A multinational team led by…
New finds demonstrate: Neandertals were the first in Europe to make standardized and specialized bone tools – which are still in use today
Two…
During an individual’s lifetime the biomechanical requirements on his or her teeth change Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary…
Leipzig researchers have published new data on volcanic ash, known as the “Campanian Ignimbrite”, which covered wide parts of Europe
About 40,000…
Computer simulation shows that the reduction of natural dental wear might be the main cause for widely spread non-carius cervical lesions (the loss of…
New high precision radiocarbon dates of bone collagen show that a cultural exchange may have taken place between modern humans and Neanderthals more…
New finds from Dikika, Ethiopia, push back the first stone tool use and meatconsumption by almost one million years and provide the first evidence…
New Kenyan Fossils Shed Light on the Evolution of the Genus Homo
Exciting new fossils discovered east of Lake Turkana confirm that there were two…
Foundation of the Max Planck Weizmann Center for Integrative Archaeology and Anthropology in Rehovot/Israel
A new element is being brought in to the…
The versatile hand of Australopithecus sediba makes a better candidate for an early tool-making hominin than the hand of Homo habilis
Hand bones from…
Approx. 3 million years ago, females rather than males moved from the groups they were born in to new social groups.
So far ranging and residence…
