November 20, 2023
We are not a violent species, despite what the news says
Source: The Conversation
Author: María Martinon, Director of CENIEH
August 29, 2023
Early Neolithic human remains from Galería del Sílex in Sierra de Atapuerca, Burgos, Spain
Source: ScienceDirect
August 10, 2023
Reply to Rak et al. (2021) “The DNH 7 skull of Australopithecus robustus from Drimolen (Main Quarry), South Africa” [J. Hum. Evol. 151 (2021), 102913]
Source: Journal of Human Evolution
August 08, 2023
Uncovering the adult morphology of the forearm bones from the Sima de los Huesos Site in Atapuerca (Spain), with comments on biomechanical features
Source: American Association for Anatomy
June 12, 2023
Main anatomical characteristics of the hominin fossil humeri from the Sima de los Huesos Middle Pleistocene site, Sierra de Atapuerca, Burgos, Spain: An update
Fuente: GeoUCMpublica
José-Miguel Carretero, Rebeca García-González, Laura Rodríguez, Juan-Luis Arsuaga
April 10, 2023
What color were Neandertals?
Even with whole genomes, scientists can't say very precisely what pattern of skin, hair, and eye pigmentation was in ancient populations like the Neandertals.
Source: John Hawks
Photograph: A collage of Neandertal faces as imagined by artists and exhibited in museums during the genome era. Artists include Alfons and Adrie Kennis, John Gurche, Elisabeth Daynès, Tom Björklund, Oscar Nilsson, and Fabio Fogliazza.
August 25, 2022
Seven-million-year-old femur suggests ancient human relative walked upright
Source: NATURE | Ewen Callaway
Image credit: Franck Guy/ Plaevoprim / CNRS - University of Poitiers.
January 04, 2022
NEW STUDY ON VISUAL BEHAVIOUR AND PALAEOLITHIC TOOLS
The CENIEH Paleoneurobiology Group has published a study analysing visual attention patterns during the exploration of images of stone tools or choppers and bifaces to find out to what extent attention is influenced by their morphology
SOURCE: CENIEH
November 24, 2021
AUSTRALOPITHECUS SEDIBA WALKED LIKE A HUMAN, BUT CLIMBED LIKE AN APE
Lumbar spine fossils found at the Malapa site in South Africa are the "missing link" resolving a decades-long debate, showing that early hominids used their upper limbs to climb like apes and their lower limbs to walk like humans.
Source: CENIEH
July 13, 2018
Tools from China are oldest hint of human lineage outside Africa
2.1-million-year-old stone tools suggest hominins reached East Asia much earlier than thought.
Nature
October 26, 2017
Older Neandertal survived with a little help from his friends
An older Neandertal from about 50,000 years ago, who had suffered multiple injuries and other degenerations, became deaf and must have relied on the help of others to avoid prey and survive well into his 40s, indicates a new analysis published Oct. 20 in the online journal Plos One.
Phys.org
August 11, 2017
Amazing 13-Million-Year-Old Ape Skull Discovered
The remarkable skull is so well preserved, scientists can see the young ape’s unerupted teeth and an impression of its brain.
National Geographic
May 24, 2017
Europe was the birthplace of mankind, not Africa, scientists find
Two fossils of an ape-like creature which had human-like teeth have been found in Bulgaria and Greece, dating to 7.2 million years ago.
The Telegraph