Earliest known hominin activity in the Philippines by 709 thousand years ago
Very exciting news out of the Philippines today, a paper published in Nature describes the discovery of stone tools and ...
Tag: hominid
Any member of the ‘Great Apes’ (Hominidae), including humans, chimpanzees, gorillas and extinct species.
Possible Hobbit ancestors found in Flores, dating 700,000 years
A new paper out in Nature last month detail the find of tiny hominid bones in Flores, home of H. ...
First discovery of archaic Homo from Taiwan
A fossil jawbone recovered from the seabed near Taiwan represents the first ancient hominid find from the region; dating is ...
Fossil tortoise found in Java
A fossil tortoise is found in Java, amidst some rock-shaped balls that suggests hominids hunted them using tools. East Java ...
Red Deer Cave People: another set of new, old humans
I've been slow in getting this news out which has been floating about a week already. An article in PLoS ...
Hominins on Flores by one million years ago
A paper by Brumm et al released online in Nature earlier this month reports the finds of stone tools in ...
Two websites on early man
Just came across two websites in the past week for those of you who might be interested in early man ...
Small skull, huge controversy
Research|Penn State, an online magazine by the Pennsylvana State University has an interesting feature-length article on Dr Bob Eckhart, who ...
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