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  1. 1.77-million-year-old Homo erectus skulls in China show early humans reached Asia sooner than believed

    Three skulls unearthed at the Yunxian site in Hubei Province have long sat at the center of debate. For years, researchers placed their age at about 1 million to 1.1 million years. A new study...

    More information: archaeologymag.com/2026/02/1-7

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  2. 1.77-million-year-old Homo erectus skulls in China show early humans reached Asia sooner than believed

    Three skulls unearthed at the Yunxian site in Hubei Province have long sat at the center of debate. For years, researchers placed their age at about 1 million to 1.1 million years. A new study...

    More information: archaeologymag.com/2026/02/1-7

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    #archaeology #archeology #archaeologynews #evolution #anthropology #homoerectus

  3. Così come le popolazioni europee hanno ereditato parte del DNA dai #Neanderthal, quelle oceaniche e del Sud-est asiatico hanno ricevuto mutazioni dei #Denisova. 🪾

    Ora sappiamo che almeno una di queste mutazioni risale a #HomoErectus: lo hanno scoperto scienziati cinesi che hanno estratto e analizzato proteine da denti di H. erectus vissuti 400mila anni fa. 🦷

    nature.com/articles/s41586-026

  4. Using a minimally invasive technique, Chinese scientists have extracted proteins from 400,000-year-old #HomoErectus teeth. 🦷

    The analysis identified two mutations in an enamel protein: one entirely novel, and another previously known only from Denisovans. The findings suggest a deep genetic link connecting present-day populations in Southeast Asia and Oceania to ancient Homo erectus through the #Denisova lineage. 🪾

    Enamel proteins from six Homo erectus specimens across China | Nature
    nature.com/articles/s41586-026

  5. New cosmogenic dating puts the Yunxian Homo erectus skulls at 1.77 million years old, making them the oldest securely contextualized hominin fossils in eastern Asia. The dispersal picture just got more complicated. #Paleoanthropology #HomoErectus #HumanEvolution anthropology.net/p/the-yunxian

  6. #archeology #religion #HomoErectus

    "As well as this, shamanism may likely have been a major part of any religion practiced in this period. Shamanism in this sense is used in a broad way to refer to spiritual experiences. These spiritual experiences often involve altering the state of consciousness where practitioners render themselves in ecstatic or extreme psychological states that allows them to communicate with the spirits.

    The study of prehistoric shamanism is controversial, however. Many modern scholars disagree about the validity of this theory due to the lack of evidence available, but the strong correlation between drug use and religion throughout history does suggest that Homo erectus liked to get high."

    historicmysteries.net/p/god-an

  7. 1.8 million-year-old human jawbone unearthed in Georgia reveals earliest Homo erectus migration to Eurasia

    A recent discovery in the Republic of Georgia is giving a new glimpse into the earliest humans to settle beyond Africa. Scientists digging at the Orozmani site, about 60 miles south of Tbilisi, uncovered a 1.8-million-year-old lower jawbone of Homo erectus...

    More info: archaeologymag.com/2025/09/1-8

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    #archaeology #archeology #archaeologynews #homoerectus #anthropology

  8. 300,000-year-old teeth in China suggest interbreeding between early humans and Homo erectus

    A recent study of ancient teeth unearthed at South China’s Hualongdong site is revolutionizing scientists’ understanding of human evolution in Asia. The 300,000-year-old dental remains from an enigmatic group of hominins reveal an unprecedented mix of primitive and modern characteristics...

    More info: archaeologymag.com/2025/08/int

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    #archaeology #anthropology #homosapiens #homoerectus

  9. Homo erectus in Java: 140,000-year-old fossils found in submerged river valley

    A recent discovery in the seas off Java’s northeast, in the Madura Strait, is giving a previously unimaginable insight into the life of Homo erectus in the late Middle Pleistocene...

    More information: archaeologymag.com/2025/05/hom

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    #archaeology #archeology #archaeologynews #fossils #pleistocene #anthropology #homoerectus

  10. Oldest human face in Western Europe found in Spain, rewriting early European settlement history

    A fascinating fossil find in Spain’s Atapuerca Mountains has revealed that the beginnings of human habitation in Western Europe predate what scientists previously believed...

    More information: archaeologymag.com/2025/03/old

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    #archaeology #archeology #archaeologynews #evolution #anthropology #homoerectus

  11. 16-Jan-2025
    Human ancestor thrived longer in harsher conditions than previous estimates

    #HomoErectus, the first of our relatives to have human-like proportions and the first known early human to migrate out of Africa,
    successfully navigated harsher and more arid terrains for longer in Eastern Africa than previously thought, according to a new study

    eurekalert.org/news-releases/1 #science #anthropology #HumanEvolution

  12. My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...

    The last post from 2018 – a few photos from my palaeoart workshop in Beijing, China. Together we reconstructed the face and head of Homo erectus. Thanks to Nottingham Uni for the opportunity!

    #Art #Painting #PaleoArt #PalaeoArt #SciArt #SciComm #DigitalArt #Illustration #Dinosaurs #Birds #Reptiles #Palaeontology #Paleontology #HomoErectus

  13. New study reveals archaic ‘hobbits’ were even smaller than previously thought

    Recent fossil discoveries on the Indonesian island of Flores have revealed that the ancient human species, Homo floresiensis, commonly referred to as “hobbits” due to their small stature, were even tinier than previously thought...

    More information: archaeologymag.com/2024/08/arc

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    #archaeology #archeology #archaeologynews #hobbits #homofloresiensis #homoerectus #anthropology

  14. Really enjoying this particularly episode of In Our Time, in which I learned that the world's oldest surviving artwork predates the emergence of our species.

    #InOurTime #HomoErectus

    bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00168lg

  15. In der Ukraine haben Archäologen die ältesten Zeugnisse von Frühmenschen in Europa entdeckt. Die 1,4 Millionen Jahre alten Steinwerkzeuge stammen von den Vorfahren der Neandertaler. #Homoerectus #Korolevo #Frühmensch #Archäologie
    scinexx.de/news/archaeologie/a

  16. Evolution of Humanity (Tama-Kyu)
    Written by Guest

    5 (1 votes)

    Review and images by bmathison1972; edited by Suspsy

    Prehistoric and primitive hominids are not rare in the animal toy market, but evolutionary sets of them are. The first, and probably the most popular, was called Evolution of Man, produced by Bullyland in 1999. The set featured Dryopithecus, Australopithecus, and four species […]

    Read more... https://dinotoyblog.com/evolution-of-humanity-tama-kyu/

    #Ardipithecus #HomoErectus #HomoNeanderthalensis #HomoSapiens #Orrorin #Uncategorized

  17. Classifying humans and human-like mammals based on the shape of their head bones and other bones is not science, but pseudo-science. Why would #anthropologists still insist on doing this?

    I would say the shape of my head is more like that of a #Neanderthal. #HomoErectus are known to have smaller teeth which I believe is due to their diet, not how advanced they are. If their diet was more grain and vegetable based or contained less calcium, having smaller teeth is natural. #homosapien

  18. Archaeologists have discovered five skulls of early human ancestors in Dmanisi, Georgia, that challenge the conventional view of human evolution. The skulls belong to Homo erectus, which lived about 1.8 million years ago. The skulls show a remarkable diversity of features, suggesting that Homo erectus was more variable than previously thought and that other human species may have been just regional variants of the same species.

    #Dmanisi #HomoErectus #Evolution

    archaeology.org/issues/116-140

  19. Alt Headline: Humans have long history of meals with Fava beans.

    "Our human relatives butchered and ate each other 1.45 million years ago - Smithsonian Magazine"
    #History #paleoanthropology #HomoSapien #HomoErectus #Neanderthal #Dinner
    apple.news/ACCb3KiEmTimmYElHxJ