Zoologist and author Desmond Morris dies aged 98 www.bbc.com/news/article...

No evidence that hominin dispersal across Eurasia was part of a wider turnover in mammal distributions

Promising! Using computed tomography to study DNA from ancient humans without destroying samples

Gesher Benot Ya'aqov hace 780 ka: aprovechamiento de ramas y troncos en el paleolago Hula a lo largo de decenas de milenios. Paleoenvironmental and behavioral insights into firewood selection by early Middle Pleistocene hominins

Un elefante procesado en EAK (Olduvai) hace 1,78 Ma: implicaciones para el origen de la cooperación

Publicación de 1800 artefactos MSA y 3 esqueletos humanos de ~100 ka en Faro Daba, Halibee (Afar, Etiopía): 1) quedó enterrado rápido (¿inundación?) 2) con signos de carbonización 3) con daños de carnívoros www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... www.sciencealert.com/ancient-land...

Interesting! www.iflscience.com/neanderthals...

Fabulous news that @martamlahr.bsky.social has been elected a Fellow of the British Academy 🍾🍾🍾

A 15,000-year-old pendant is changing how we see Ice Age Britain. Reanalysis of a Kents Cavern artefact shows it’s a modified grey seal tooth, likely worn as a pendant and transported over 100km inland. #Archaeology #IceAge #Prehistory @ucl.ac.uk @nhm-london.bsky.social

Some Parts Of Human DNA Might Be Evolving Way Faster Than Scientists Thought

What Is the Acheulean?🏺🧪 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... The purpose of this paper is not only to make a statement regarding how to define the Acheulean, but also to illustrate its diversity across Eurasia.

Cambio tecnológico con tendencia generalizada desde hace ~80 k hacia la industria miniaturizada Mudayyan. Lithic Miniaturization and Technological Innovation on the Southern Dispersal Route Out of Africa

Newly announced aDNA results from a Time Team-excavated double-burial show the deceased were brother and sister. 🧪🏺

Amud 7, the Neanderthal baby who shows they developed faster than modern humans english.elpais.com/science-tech...

A look at the Maba hominin skull @johnhawks.net open.substack.com/pub/johnhawk...

Presencia humana en Arabia al final del Pleistoceno y habitabilidad del sur de Arabia durante el último período glacial: Evidence from Buhais Rockshelter for human settlement in Arabia between 60,000 and 16,000 years ago

La evidencia directa más antigua del uso de veneno en puntas de flecha microlíticas en el sur de África. 60 ka, Umhlatuzana (KwaZulu-Natal, Sudáfrica). Direct evidence for poison use on microlithic arrowheads in Southern Africa at 60,000 years ago

Happy to be a part of this great new article on assessing and measuring complexity in archaeological, ethnographic and primatological contexts!

Finds from the Halibee site in the Middle Awash, Ethiopia including stone tools and human remains.

"El término «modernidad conductual humana» es impreciso y está desactualizado" Behavioral Modernity, Neanderthals and Homo sapiens: a Case for Concept Retirement

The 160-year mystery of Europe's Ice Age 'queens' bbc.com/future/artic...

Ice Age art of the Swabian Jura www.iceageart.de/en/ice-age-art

🚨Un elefante procesado en EAK (Olduvai) hace 1,78 Ma: implicaciones para el origen de la cooperación wp.me/p4Bi9E-6Pv

Genetic history of dog domestication | Science Sessions | PNAS www.pnas.org/post/podcast...

Archaeogenetic insights into the demographic history of Late Neanderthals | PNAS www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Neandertal women and children were the victims of selective cannibalism at Goyet www.cnrs.fr/en/press/nea...

Who were the Neanderthals—and why did they go extinct? www.nationalgeographic.com/history/arti...

Earliest evidence of hominin bipedalism in Sahelanthropus tchadensis | Science Advances www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

‘Deep inside, something told me I had found the earliest human ancestor; I went numb’ – Yohannes Haile-Selassie on his lifetime quest to discover ancient humanity theconversation.com/deep-inside-...

Human Ancestors Interbred with Two Distinct Populations of Distant Relatives🏺🧪 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... One contributing to archaic Eurasian populations (Denisovans and Neanderthal-Denisovan ancestors) diverged earlier from human lineage than did one contributing to early moderns in Africa.

Reconstructing dietary preferences in the Middle Pleistocene Sima de los Huesos population: A molar macrowear perspective🏺🧪 Laura Martín-Francés, @mmartinont.bsky.social, et al www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... Shows a diet of similar proportions of meat and plant foods h/t @qafzeh.bsky.social

👋 Especially interested to hear from professionals (inc non-archaeology) who've read the book recently and noted areas which could do with updating!

Partial skeleton from the Koobi Fora Formation (2.02–2.06 Ma) New partial skeleton of Homo habilis from the upper Burgi Member, Koobi Fora Formation, Ileret, Kenya🏺🧪 Frederick Grine, Ashley Hammond, Meave Leakey, @louiseleakey.bsky.social et al anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

One of the primary biogeographical corridors for hominin migration. Drilling the Marathousa palaeo-lake in Greece (Peloponnese): inferring the environmental context of a Middle Pleistocene archaeological site 🏺🧪 Ines Bludau, @katharv.bsky.social et al onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Richard Wrangham, anthropologist: ‘Humans domesticated ourselves by defeating our alpha male ancestors’ english.elpais.com/science-tech...

A genomic analysis revealed a possible 'sacrificial caste' among Silla society in Three-Kingdoms period Korea. 🧪🏺

The National Science Foundation has proposed eliminating the directorate that includes most of the federal funding for fieldwork and research in human origins. It's a sudden acceleration of a decades-long trend. I comment on what this means. www.johnhawks.net/p/us-federal...

Fossils found in Moroccan cave may be a close Homo sapiens ancestor www.reuters.com/science/foss...

16 years ago today! More news on sediba coming this year…

The Evolution of Brain and Body Size in Genus Homo. TA Monson, AP Weitz, & MF Brasil. doi.org/10.3390/huma... "Both small-bodied Homo floresiensis and Homo naledi have endocranial volumes (ECVs) that are consistent with their body size given the scaling relationship that characterizes genus Homo."

How Did Neanderthals Survive 100,000+ Years of Cold? ~ with PROFESSOR TRENTON HOLLIDAY @trentonholliday.bsky.social @evolutionsoup.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=M633...

For centuries, humans have wondered about the emotional lives of animals. Do they feel joy, fear, grief, or love? Today, cutting-edge research is revolutionizing our understanding of animal emotions How Animals Express Emotions 🧪 www.animalsaroundtheglobe.com/how-animals-...