February 2011 Archeology - Early Humans

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[Aisling]

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Apparently we're faster than Neanderthals:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1353644/Achilles-heel-Reason-won-race-survival-Neanderthals-went-extinct.html

Pondering the Denisovans:
http://www.npr.org/blogs/13.7/2011/02/03/133464424/leaky-replacement-human-neanderthal-and-denisovan-blends

More on an earlier departure from Africa:
http://www.jpost.com/Sci-Tech/Article.aspx?id=206056

[Aisling]

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On the possibility that Australopithecus afarensis spent more time walking than climbing:
http://www.csmonitor.com/Science/2011/0211/Australopithecus-afarensis-bone-could-change-story-of-human-evolution
 
They're checking up on those Laetoli footprints:
http://thecitizen.co.tz/business/13-local-business/8039-experts-set-to-study-state-of-footprints-at-laetoli-riverbed.html

More on early humans running faster than Neanderthals:
http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-02-early-humans-won-neandertals.html

More on the implications of those teeth from Qesem Cave (Israel):
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2011-02/bu-atr020911.php

[Aisling]

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Another take on human evolution:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/02/110217141307.htm

... and earliest humans weren't too different from us, apparently:
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2011-02/uocp-ehn021411.php
 
Now we are told that Oetzi had brown eyes, not blue:
http://www.redorbit.com/news/science/1998300/oetzi_the_iceman_had_brown_eyes_not_blue/index.html

... and to celebrate the 20th anniversary of his rediscovery, they've done a new 3d reconstruction of him:
http://www.iceman.it/en/node/226
 
Feature on the first Neanderthals:
http://www.elpais.com/articulo/portada/primos/Neandertales/elpepusoceps/20110213elpepspor_8/Tes

[Aisling]

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Early humans had back pain too:
http://www.buryfreepress.co.uk/news/regional/early_ancestors_endured_back_pain_1_2437919
 
Neanderthals apparently used feathers for decoration:
http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-02-evidence-neanderthals-feathers.html
 
More on Lucy's foot:
http://www.cavalierdaily.com/2011/02/23/giving-lucy-a-foot-to-walk-on/
 
More on Oetzi's face:
http://news.discovery.com/archaeology/otzi-face-reconstruction-110225.html

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