Emergence of Homo sapiens in Africa
Elif Duluk
Our species first appeared in Africa more than 300,000 years ago.
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Homo sapiens
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Do you want to see the recreated face of an Egyptian man who lived 35,000 years ago?
The oldest known Homo sapiens skeleton in Egypt has been reconstructed by Brazilian researchers using a technique called photogrammetry.
Some of the earliest stone tools used by our ancestors were found in Kenya
Ahmet Mengüç
Some of the earliest stone tools ever used by prehistoric people were found by archaeologists in Kenya, and they date back to 2.9 million years.
The oldest known piece of anatomy of our species in Europe
Dilek Yazıcı
An ancient jawbone previously thought to belong to a Neanderthal may force a rethinking of modern human history in Europe.
At least 236,000 years ago, Homo naledi may have lighted fires in subterranean caverns
New evidence suggests that an ancient hominid known as Homo naledi may have ignited controlled fires in the pitch-dark chambers of an underground cave system.
How ancient humans learned to meditate in order to deal with stress
Scientists have revealed that, unlike our Neanderthal predecessors, humans evolved the ability to meditate in order to cope with both past and future pressures.
British history’s first hand axes were not made by Homo sapiens
Homo Sapiens, proof of prosperous settlements in Britain earlier than anticipated is provided by flint axes going back to 600,000 years ago.
Artificial intelligence is being used by archeologists to identify evidence of fire use from a million years ago
Archaeologists in Israel and Canada employed artificial intelligence to unearth evidence of fire use from a period that predates all but a few other similar discoveries, in a location where no such evidence had previously been discovered.
