Genus Homo:
Stone tools found in China from the Pleistocene of the Levallois tradition hint at a potential local development of the technology.
A cave painting in Borneo in Indonesia dates from 40,000 years ago.
Inbreeding was common in hominins.
Crossing out of Africa was not difficult because the Arabian peninsula was green.
Hominins were not the cause the megafaunal extinctions in Africa, rather climate and the expansion of the grasslands were. Unless, of course, the evidence for H. erectus purposefully expanding the grasslands with fire are accurate.
How did human language arise? We don't really know.
How did members of the genus Homo survive in east Africa from paleolithic to mesolithic?
Analyzing Aurignacian tools using morphometrics.
A Russian site and its dating from the Upper Paleolithic is discussed and explored more.
H. sapiens:
The Lago Santa people had African-like features and were possibly Clovis culture descendants. The peopling of South and Central America turned out to be fairly complicated.
The peopling of the Americas is getting a lot of interest once more with genetic studies.
Multiple types of projectiles found in Texas hint at potentially multiple migrations into the Americas. Note: this could also be an example of a transition from one projectile point technology to another.
It seems the dispersals into the AMericas were more complex and hint at an Australasian component.
How did people cross the Wallace Line?
How the environment of northwestern Argentina changed across the Pleistocene/Holocene boundary.
People appear to have inhabited Tibet at least as early as 30,000 years ago. This is much earlier than previously thought.
Star watching to understand the seasons may have very early origins. Cave paintings from 40,000 years ago definitely suggest this.
A cave painting in Borneo in Indonesia dates from 40,000 years ago.
Inbreeding was common in hominins.
Crossing out of Africa was not difficult because the Arabian peninsula was green.
Hominins were not the cause the megafaunal extinctions in Africa, rather climate and the expansion of the grasslands were. Unless, of course, the evidence for H. erectus purposefully expanding the grasslands with fire are accurate.
How did human language arise? We don't really know.
How did members of the genus Homo survive in east Africa from paleolithic to mesolithic?
Analyzing Aurignacian tools using morphometrics.
A Russian site and its dating from the Upper Paleolithic is discussed and explored more.
H. sapiens:
The Lago Santa people had African-like features and were possibly Clovis culture descendants. The peopling of South and Central America turned out to be fairly complicated.
The peopling of the Americas is getting a lot of interest once more with genetic studies.
Multiple types of projectiles found in Texas hint at potentially multiple migrations into the Americas. Note: this could also be an example of a transition from one projectile point technology to another.
It seems the dispersals into the AMericas were more complex and hint at an Australasian component.
How did people cross the Wallace Line?
How the environment of northwestern Argentina changed across the Pleistocene/Holocene boundary.
People appear to have inhabited Tibet at least as early as 30,000 years ago. This is much earlier than previously thought.
Star watching to understand the seasons may have very early origins. Cave paintings from 40,000 years ago definitely suggest this.
Why do modern humans have round heads?
H. neanderthalensis:
Neandertals were just as violent as modern humans.
Neandertal children suffered from extreme stress during the winter. Lead exposure was noted.
Neanderthals in the Caucasus transported obsidian over 250 km to make tools with.
Neandertal genes associated with neurogenesis in modern humans have been found.
H. erectus:
Are stone tools of the Acheulean style from 190k to 240k years ago a sign Homo erectus survived in Saudi Arabia until a late date?
H. erectus social behavior is discussed wrt an animal carcass.
H. habilis:
Oldowon stone tools, the style associated with Homo habilis, have been found in Algeria dating from 2.4 million years ago.
Genus Australopithecus:
Little Foot, a likely A. africanus, is emerging from the stone matrix it was preserved in.
Little Foot's brain endocast suggests a more basal, chimpanzee like brain.
The original studies of A. africanus when it was known as A. prometheus are discussed.
Genus Paranthropus:
The scapular anatomy of P. bosei gets studied.
KNM-ER 47000 appears to be from P. bosei.
META:
U-Pb dating of flowstones from South Africa constrains the dates hominins were evolving there and shows they were living in dry climate conditions.
Trabecular Bone Fraction gets compared between modern humans, hominins and other primates.
The stone tool gripping abilities of modern humans, hominins and apes are compared.
3d analysis of bone tools sheds some light on how they were made and used.
Three plus different hominins coexisted in the early Pleistocene ~2 million years ago in the Omo-Turkana Basin (P. bosei, H.habilis and H. erectus. possibly H. rudolfensis as well).
What was the dietary diversity of early Pleistocene hominins?
The trabecular structure of the distal femur is compared between humans, apes and baboons is compared.
Trabecular Bone Fraction gets compared between modern humans, hominins and other primates.
The stone tool gripping abilities of modern humans, hominins and apes are compared.
3d analysis of bone tools sheds some light on how they were made and used.
Three plus different hominins coexisted in the early Pleistocene ~2 million years ago in the Omo-Turkana Basin (P. bosei, H.habilis and H. erectus. possibly H. rudolfensis as well).
What was the dietary diversity of early Pleistocene hominins?
The trabecular structure of the distal femur is compared between humans, apes and baboons is compared.
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