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Anthropology.net
MARCH 18, 2025
For decades, the story of modern human origins seemed relatively straightforward: Homo sapiens emerged in Africa roughly 300,000 years ago, evolving as a single, continuous lineage before expanding across the globe. But new research suggests that this narrative is missing an entire chapter.
Sapiens
NOVEMBER 26, 2024
New archaeological research reveals insights into the first-known seafarers to brave ocean crossings from Asia to the Pacific Islands more than 50,000 years ago. In the deep human past , highly skilled seafarers made daring crossings from Asia to the Pacific Islands.
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Anthropology.net
NOVEMBER 8, 2024
High in the Zeravshan Valley of Tajikistan, the Soii Havzak rock-shelter has provided researchers with an invaluable glimpse into early human migration routes and daily life in Central Asia. It contains layers of human occupation spanning the Middle and Upper Paleolithic periods, approximately 150,000 to 20,000 years ago.
Sapiens
DECEMBER 3, 2024
Humans huddled in caves. Researchers primarily applied this system to Eurasia and Africa, but other evolutionary frameworks have been applied not only to those regions but also to the Americas.) This approach to archaeological research places value on the continuous cultural and social development of humans.
Sapiens
NOVEMBER 12, 2024
To imagine those futures, the scholars resurrected sustainable lifestyles of the past known from archaeological research and African Oral Histories. These scholars are using their research on the precolonial past to sow sustainable futures—like the worlds inhabited by Abena and Akaina.
Anthropology.net
FEBRUARY 8, 2025
The scientific establishment, still enthralled by the Eurocentric idea that human origins were tied to Asia or Europe, was unwilling to accept an African cradle for humanity. His work was shaped by the racial and colonial attitudes of his time, and his interpretation of human evolution was, at times, influenced by problematic ideas.
Anthropology.net
NOVEMBER 4, 2024
The Origins of Burial Practices in Human Evolution Around 120,000 years ago, both Homo sapiens and Neanderthals began practicing intentional burial in the Levant region, shaping a complex cultural narrative in human evolution. Been et al.,
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