https://theconversation.com/new-clues-from-2-million-year-old-tooth-enamel-tell-us-more-about-an-ancient-relative-of-humans-258082
Researchers have extracted 2-million-year-old protein remains from Paranthropus robustus teeth to reveal biological sex and genetic variability.
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https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/ancient-humans-were-making-fire-350-000-years-earlier-than-scientists/
Feb 10, 2026 - Making fire on demand was a milestone in the lives of our early ancestors. But the question of when that skill first arose has been difficult for scientists to...
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https://www.discovermagazine.com/this-7-million-year-old-fossil-may-reveal-when-ancient-humans-started-walking-upright-48484
Jan 2, 2026 - Learn how detailed 3D analysis uncovered evidence that upright walking emerged near the very start of the human lineage.
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https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/news/2026/january/ancient-humans-made-elephant-bone-tools-europe-half-a-million-years-ago.html
A prehistoric tool is reshaping our understanding of Europe’s early inhabitants.
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https://www.sciencealert.com/dna-analysis-reveals-two-routes-ancient-humans-used-to-reach-australia
Dec 3, 2025 - The first humans arrived upon the landmass now known as Australia around 60,000 years ago along two distinct routes, according to a new genomics study.
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https://www.discovermagazine.com/modern-humans-may-have-lived-alongside-an-extinct-human-species-in-ancient-indonesia-48523
Jan 9, 2026 - Learn about the overlap between archaic humans that once lived on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi and the modern humans that replaced them.
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https://www.Princeton.EDU/news/2024/07/12/history-contact-princeton-geneticists-are-rewriting-narrative-neanderthals-and
Modern humans and Neanderthals interacted over a 200,000-year period, says geneticist Joshua Akey.
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https://sciencedaily.com/releases/2025/10/251012054612.htm
Researchers in Italy discovered 400,000-year-old evidence that ancient humans butchered elephants for food and tools. At the Casal Lumbroso site near Rome,...
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https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/human-evolution/an-extreme-end-of-human-genetic-variation-ancient-humans-were-isolated-in-southern-africa-for-nearly-100-000-years-and-their-genetics-are-stunningly-different
Ancient genomes from southern Africa show that people evolved in isolation for upward of 100,000 years.
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https://www.sciencenews.org/article/ancient-pottery-math-earliest-evidence
Jan 13, 2026 - Flower designs on 8,000-year-old Mesopotamian pots reveal a “mathematical knowledge” perhaps developed to share land and crops, archaeologists say.
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https://www.newscientist.com/podcasts/how-ancient-humans-crossed-the-vast-ocean-brain-training-for-dementia-life-of-science-legend-maggie-aderin/
Episode 345 More than 8,500 years ago, ancient people crossed the ocean to the remote island of Malta for the first time. Long before compasses or sails were...
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https://www.cnn.com/2026/01/16/science/halafian-pottery-first-math-intl-scli
Jan 16, 2026 - Images of plants painted on pottery made up to 8,000 years ago may be the earliest example of humans’ mathematical thought, a study has found.
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https://www.newscientist.com/article/2506312-ancient-humans-took-two-routes-to-australia-60000-years-ago/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home
Scientists have long tried to uncover the perilous journey humans took to reach the ancient land mass that now makes up Australia. Now, a genetic study has...
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