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Re: October 2011 Archeology - Early Humans
« Reply #1 on: October 14, 2011, 06:42:08 pm »
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Evidence of a 400 000 b.p. (!)'production line' of stone tools at Qesem Cave (Israel):
http://www.jpost.com/Features/FrontLines/Article.aspx?id=240535
 
Burial of three paleolithic dogs, one with a mammoth bone in its mouth, from the Czech Republic:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/44819678/ns/technology_and_science-science/

More on Neanderthals having a good diet:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/44752400/ns/technology_and_science-science/

Review of Dean Falk, *The Fossil Chronicles*:
http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/culturelab/2011/10/evolutionary-clues-from-ancestors-brains-1.html

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Re: October 2011 Archeology - Early Humans
« Reply #3 on: October 23, 2011, 02:07:11 pm »
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Using 'foodprints' to determine the diet of early humans:
http://www.latimes.com/news/science/la-sci-hominin-diet-20111022,0,7613706.story

Pondering the short legs of Neanderthals:
http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-10-mysteries-short-legged-neandertals.html
 
We can apparently blame backbone fractures on evolution:
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2011-10/cwru-bbf101911.php

On the evolutionary roots of 'culture' in humans and apes:
http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-10-culture-humans-apes-evolutionary-roots.html

A Neanderthal find from the Netherlands ... so far the coverage is only in Dutch:
http://www.nu.nl/wetenschap/2643248/werktuigen-neanderthalers-gevonden-in-limburg.html
 
Feature on figuring out where the various 'ape men' fit on the family tree:
http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/hominids/2011/10/how-africa-became-the-cradle-of-humankind/

... and the mutation which may have led to the genus homo:
http://www.nctimes.com/news/science/article_cf0b51dc-531b-5a9a-9ef1-b2cb9fbeb21a.html

More on the blades (and their implications) found in that Qesem Cave 'production line':
http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-10-archaeologists-blade-production-earlier-thought.html

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Re: October 2011 Archeology - Early Humans
« Reply #4 on: October 30, 2011, 12:16:55 pm »
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National Geographic has a feature on Otzi's latest autopsy:
http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2011/11/iceman-autopsy/hall-text

The evolutionary history of the dog:
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203554104577001843790269560.html

More on concerns over Altamira (Spain):
http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-10-controversy-reopening-sistine-chapel-stone.html
 
A Berlin restaurant caters to the 'modern' caveman:
http://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/0,1518,782747,00.html

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Re: October 2011 Archeology - Early Humans
« Reply #5 on: October 30, 2011, 06:05:06 pm »
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The evolutionary history of the dog:
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203554104577001843790269560.html

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