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Chris Stringer
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- Straddling the mid-Atlantic rift in Iceland, stepping from the North American plate to the Eurasian one! The two plates are rifting apart at about 2.5 cm/year..
- 'Prehistoric Humans Had ADHD, Too, But the Trait Hasn't Adapted to Modern Life. Research shows that people with ADHD are better at foraging, an essential skill for prehistoric Homo sapiens'
- ’If these latest analyses are correct, H. sapiens entered Europe over 150,000 years earlier than we thought, raising a whole new range of questions and possibilities including where they came from and what happened to them’ nhm.ac.uk/discover/news/…
- Study of 1m-year-old skull points to earlier origins of modern humans. Skull found in China may be [on the lineage of] Homo longi, potentially revising understanding of human evolution
- One of my all-time favourites - the tiny and graceful Vogelherd horse, carved from mammoth ivory about 40,000 years ago in the Swabian Jura of Germany. Photo: Don Hitchcock
- This fragmentary small ivory figurine was discovered in a cave at Brassempouy, France in 1892. Gravettian, about 25,000 years old, it is one of the earliest known realistic representations of a human face
- This huge bronze cauldron dating from about 700 BC was recovered from the Thames at Battersea @britishmuseum
- Neanderthals built 2 oval structures from purposely broken stalagmites deep in Bruniquel Cave France, about 176,000 years ago. The reasons are still unknown... nature.com/articles/natur…
- #FossilFriday The discovery of the remarkable skull 5 from Dmanisi, Georgia in 2005. This fossil dates to about 1.8 million years old and is usually classified as a primitive Homo erectus, or sometimes assigned to a separate species ‘Homo georgicus’
- This beautiful little mammoth was carved from mammoth ivory about 40,000 years ago. It was found in an excavation tip from a dig that happened more than 70 years earlier, at Vogelherd Cave, Germany
- ‘reconstruction from a 146,000-year-old potential Denisovan skull from Harbin, China’
Mysterious ancient humans may have given people of Papua New Guinea an immune advantage science.org/content/articl… - Remains of nine Neanderthals found in cave south of Rome. Italian archaeologists believe most of Neanderthals were killed by hyenas then dragged back to den
