Archaeologists May Have Narrowed Down the Location Where Modern Humans And Neanderthals Became One

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A New Study Shows Early Homo sapiens and their Neanderthal cousins started burying their dead around the same time and roughly the same place, some 120,000 years ago. This suggests the two species may have had, at least in part, a shared culture at the time.

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Study shows that chimpanzees perform the same complex behaviors that have brought humans success | Study suggests that the fundamental abilities underlying human language and technological culture may have evolved before humans and apes diverged millions of years ago.

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Scientists Discovered a New Human Species That Defies Conventional Wisdom

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Wild chimpanzees filmed by scientists bonding over alcoholic fruit 🍑🍹. Footage of apes consuming fermented breadfruit leads researchers to ask if it may shed light on origins of human feasting 🍽️.

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Wild chimpanzees have been observed self-medicating their wounds with plants 🌿, providing medical aid to other chimps 🐒 and even removing others from snares left by human hunters 🪤. The behaviors provide new clues about the origin of medical care in humans 🏥.

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A million-year-old human skull 🦴 suggests that the origins of modern humans 🌍 may reach back far deeper in time than previously thought and raises the possibility that Homo sapiens 🧑‍🤝‍🧑 first emerged outside of Africa. 🌍

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Genetic evidence suggests people began transporting pigs 🐖 much earlier than once thought. New study identifies populations living on Sulawesi 🌏 — possibly as far back as 50,000 years ago — as some of the earliest movers. Pig populations across the Pacific 🌊 are the legacy of repeated human migrations.

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🎨 The world's oldest securely dated cave art has been found in Sulawesi, Indonesia, dating back 67,800 years. This predates European cave art by millennia.

🗿 Researchers used Uranium-series dating, an "atomic clock" in the rock, to determine the age of calcite layers covering a hand stencil. This method avoids dating organic materials.

🖌️ The hand stencil features a unique "narrowed finger" motif, believed to signify group membership or a connection to animal symbolism, suggesting complex symbolic traditions among early humans.

🌊 This discovery supports a "Northern Route" migration theory for early humans crossing Southeast Asia and reaching Australia, potentially via long-distance sea voyages in boats.

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Neanderthal Men and Human Women Were Most Likely to Hook Up, Study Finds. Geneticists have found an interesting pattern in how early humans and Neanderthals interbred—and it wasn't balanced.

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🌍 New study re-evaluates Monte Verde site in Chile, previously thought to be 14,500 years old, a key piece of evidence for early human presence in the Americas.

🔬 Research led by Dr. Todd Surovell suggests Monte Verde is significantly younger, between 6,000 and 8,000 years old, due to soil erosion misdating the site.

🤔 This finding could shift the debate back to the Clovis culture theory, which posits human migration from Asia via the Beringia land bridge between 13,400 and 12,800 years ago.

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Harvard biological anthropologist Richard Wrangham argues that fire and cooking is what made humans human. His "cooking hypothesis" says Homo erectus evolved bigger brains 1.8 million years ago because cooked food required less energy to digest, freeing calories for the brain to grow.

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🔥 New research in PLOS One suggests early humans used fire 1.1 to 1.8 million years ago, pushing back previous estimates by 700,000 years.

🦴 Scientists analyzed tiny animal bones from Wonderwerk Cave in South Africa, finding evidence of heat exposure via luminescence, indicating they were burned.

📍 The burned bones were found clustered about 100 feet from the cave entrance, ruling out wildfires and suggesting controlled hominin activity.

🪵 This evidence points to early hominins, likely Homo erectus, transporting and maintaining fires sourced from natural wildfires, rather than creating fire themselves.

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* 📜 **Ancient DNA Found on Cave Walls:** Researchers have successfully recovered ancient human DNA from cave walls in Spain and Portugal, proving that these surfaces can preserve biological traces for thousands of years, even without bones or artifacts.

* 🚶‍♀️ **Direct Human Interaction Detected:** In Escoural Cave, Portugal, human DNA was found on a pigmented calcite crust with no animal DNA, suggesting direct deposition from human contact, such as saliva or sweat.

* 🌍 **New Window into Prehistory:** This discovery opens up a new frontier in studying prehistoric human activity, potentially revealing information about cave occupation, movement, and behavior, even when skeletal remains are absent.

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