April 2012 Archeology - Early Humans

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Lucy had cousins in the neighborhood it seems:
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/n...ees-evolution/

Hominids may have been using fire a million years ago:
http://www.thestar.com/news/world/ar...lion-years-ago

Interesting well-preserved woolly mammoth carcass from Siberia shows both animal predation and human use:
http://phys.org/news/2012-04-mammoth...rly-lions.html

How (why?) homo sapiens became so successful, evolution-wise:
http://www.npr.org/2012/04/06/150123...-of-the-planet

Feature on Piltdown Man:
http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/...istory-of-man/

More on Neanderthals being almost extinct in Europe by the time humans arrived:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencete...-evidence.html

More on the location of Peking Man:
http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/90782/7768484.html

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Teamwork apparently gave humans bigger brains:
http://phys.org/news/2012-04-teamwor...cientists.html

More on use of fire a million years b.p.:
http://news.yahoo.com/study-ancestor...190741815.html

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Still arguing about Mrs Ples:
http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/homi...entity-crisis/

Pondering the origins of music:
http://www.theatlantic.com/entertain...-music/255945/

Meat eating was apparently good for early humans:
http://phys.org/news/2012-04-meat-ea...ans-globe.html

What chimpanzee ground nests tell us about early humans:
http://phys.org/news/2012-04-chimpan...s-descent.html

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Evidence of Middle Paleolithic folk chowing down on elephants:
http://phys.org/news/2012-04-inhabit...ants-meat.html

Early humans (specifically, homo erectus, it seems) were more advanced than previously thought:
http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/323827

Somewhat rambling thing on the hominid family tree:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/ar...n-cousins.html



Again on climate change and evolution:
http://phys.org/news/2012-04-climate...evolution.html