Thomas was wading in about 50 cm (18 in) of water, about 3 m (10 ft) from shore, when his foot struck something hard and round. He pulled up a human skull. They stashed it in the bushes, waited for the race to finish, then found a plastic bucket and …

The brain space of the skull, and so most likely the brain itself, were larger than in modern humans. When comparing traits to worldwide average present day human traits in Neanderthal specimens, the following traits are distinguished. The magnitude of particular trait changed over the 300,000-year timeline of Neanderthal evolution.

In the summer of 1996, two college students in Kennewick, Washington, stumbled on a human skull while wading in the shallows along the Columbia River. They called the police. The police brought...

Peking Man (Homo erectus pekinensis) is a subspecies of H. erectus which inhabited what is now northern China during the Middle Pleistocene. Its fossils have been found in a cave some 50 km (31 mi) southwest of Beijing (then referred to in the West as Peking), known as the Zhoukoudian Peking Man Site.

Though modern humans (Homo sapiens) and Neanderthals interbred, the development of the skull and the presence of a “caveman forehead” differ significantly between these two species. In this post, we’ll explore the origins of a protruding forehead in adults, how it relates to the Neanderthal brow ridge, and the options available today to ...

2023年8月10日 · An ancient skull dating back 300,000 years is unlike any other premodern human fossil ever found, potentially pointing to a new branch in the human family tree, according to new research.

2024年1月3日 · When it was discovered in 1856 in Germany, scientists had never seen a specimen like it: the oval shaped skull with a low, receding forehead and distinct browridges, the thick, strong bones. In 1864, it became the first fossil hominin species to be named.

2023年8月7日 · The jaw, skull, and leg bones belonging to this yet-to-be classified hominin, labeled HLD 6, were discovered in Hualongdong, in East Asia, in 2019. In the years since, experts at the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) have struggled to …

2023年9月14日 · In 1993, cave explorers entered a long, narrow tunnel at the Lamalunga Cave near the town of Altamura in southern Italy. At the far end, they found an upside-down human skull fused into the rock alongside a large collection of other human bones.

1 天前 · Prehistoric skull fragments found in Maszycka Cave led archaeologists to suspect cannibalism. Dariusz Bobak, Thomas Terberger. A handful of Magdalenian sites far to the west have also yielded hints of cannibalism. But what explains the practice? Ethnographers have recorded more recent societies where family members consume their relatives after ...