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Discovering the Wild Men of Europe
Dressing up as animals, spirits, gods and ancestors is something that humans have been doing almost as long as there have been humans. And even in the developed, urbanized landscape of Europe, some of these ancient traditions still survive, ushering in solstices and equinoxes and harvests.
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posted 26 March, 2013
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Facial reconstruction gives us an idea of what the ancient “Hobbit” hominid would have looked like
As much as Warner Bros doesn’t like people referring to Homo floresiensis as “Hobbits”, the name has kind of stuck.These strange, diminutive human cousins were only around three and a half feet tall and lived in what is now Indonesia. And through the magic of modern science, we now have an idea of what they may have looked like.
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posted 19 December, 2012
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All work and no play makes Papua New Guinea tribe so boring, no one wants to study them
Papua New Guinea is unique mixed oasis of tribal cultures, but not all tribes are covered in handmade beads, dancing and telling stories of their ancestors. But the Baining people take work so seriously, they have no religion, no stories, no games, no ritual, no government, no spiritual leaders, no play. Just work, work, work all the time.
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posted 30 July, 2012
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Neanderthal dental tartar reveals evidence of medicine
When you think of Neanderthals, yeah sure they had basic leather and fur clothing and some really basic tools, but medicine? Apparently so. New evidence from the dental tartar of Neanderthals shows they also had a basic knowledge of herbal medicine.
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posted 24 July, 2012
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38 million year old primate tooth found in Myanmar turns human evolution on its head
It’s well-established through genetics that Homo sapiens arose in Africa, but it was also thought that all of our pre-human primate ancestors also came from Africa. But a 38 million year old tooth in Myanmar may show that our very early primate ancestors started out in east Asia, making their way to Africa later.
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posted 06 June, 2012
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Remains of a possible new ancient human species uncovered in southern China
In southern China, human-like remains have been uncovered that some think might be a previously undiscovered, long extinct human species. Called the “Red Cave People” for now, more verification has to be done to confirm if this is a new species or not. And then… cloning!
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posted 15 March, 2012
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So the good news is that the extinction of Neanderthals probably had nothing to do with us
For decades, it was thought that the arrival of Homo sapiens into Europe was directly responsible for the downfall of Neanderthals. Just look at a map of Homo sapien expansion vs Neanderthal population contraction and the two fit very neatly. But as it turns out, environmental factors had already caused the Neanderthal population to go into a drastic decline.
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posted 29 February, 2012
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Entire genome of extinct hominid sequenced from a single fossil
Not but a couple years ago, the first draft of a genome of a small finger bone found in a cave in Siberia pointed to the discovery of a previously unknown hominid species that lived alongside Homo sapiens in our distant past. Now, the genome of that human species, the Denisovans has been completed and should help scientists begin to try and gain an understanding of these people.
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posted 11 February, 2012
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The Neanderthal probably had high pitched nasally voices
For forever, just based on the squat, stoutness of the Neanderthal, it’s been unofficially guessed at that they had low, growling voices. But after studies of the shape of the Neanderthal voice box, throat and skeleton, it now appears that their voices were high pitched, nasally an very loud. In other words, something like this.
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posted 23 December, 2011
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Researchers attempt to find out what our ancient hominid ancestors sounded like
Modern humans have a pretty wide range of vocal abilities, making it possible for us to speak, sing, whisper, chant and scream, while our other ape cousins and other animals have a very limited range of sounds. But when did this change happen in hominids and what did we sounds like before? Researchers in the Netherlands are trying to find out.
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posted 24 November, 2011
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Neanderthals weren’t the only hominids humans bumped uglies with
It’s pretty much established at this point that Homo sapiens (that’s us) and Neanderthals did occasionally get down and dirty under the mammoth skin, but humans in Europe weren’t the only ones bumping uglies with other hominid species. Across the globe in east Asia, people were making sweet sweet monkey love with Denisovans.
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posted 12 November, 2011
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It looks like that we may have discovered humanity’s parent species
We already know of dozens of early hominid species that lived before or alongside our own, Homo sapien, but since they’re all hominids, the differences between species are very subtle and the relationships can sometimes be difficult to tease out. But now it looks like that Homo heidelbergensis, a species once considered a cousin of Homo sapien may be the “parent” species of us and Neanderthals.
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posted 09 May, 2011
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Remains of gay caveman found in Czech Republic. But that’s impossible, since homosexuality wasn’t invented until the 1960s.
At least archaeologists are pretty sure that said caveman was gay. It’s not like they can re-animate the bones and ask him, though I’m really hoping for that sort of thing to happen at some point in the future. But burials speak volumes by themselves, and when scientists discovered a buried skeleton in a suburb of Prague that was male, but buried in the manner of a woman, the conclusion they came to was “OMG that’s so gay.”
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posted 07 April, 2011
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