April 2011 Archeology - Early Humans

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[Aisling]

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A study suggests Europe was populated by "Kashmiris" 40 000 years b.p. (!):
http://www.calcuttanews.net/story/764364/ht/Europe-was-populated-by-Kashmiris-around-40000-years-ago-Study
 
Humans and dinosaurs did not live side by side:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20110329/sc_livescience/discoveryrockscreationistsclaimthathumanslivedwithdinosaurs

[Melamphoros]

Humans and dinosaurs did not live side by side:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20110329/sc_livescience/discoveryrockscreationistsclaimthathumanslivedwithdinosaurs

You mean The Flintstones lied to us?  Oh noes, that means that one theme park in KY is based on one big lie.  Oh the horror!

[RandallS]

Humans and dinosaurs did not live side by side:

LOL. I knew I shouldn't have believed The Flintstones when I was a little kid.

[Aisling]

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Maybe Neanderthals were just unlucky:
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21028073.400-neanderthals-bad-luck-and-its-part-in-their-downfall.html

Feature on Chauvet Cave:
http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-04-years-special-effects.html

[Aisling]

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Not sure this is 'news' but there's evidence that Neanderthals had some sort of belief in an afterlife:
http://news.discovery.com/archaeology/neanderthal-burial-ground-afterlife-110420.html

Latest on Australopithecus sediba:
http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-04-australopithecus-sediba-ancestor-homo.html
 
Apparently right-handedness has been a human trait for quite a while:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/04/110419131543.htm
 
I thought we'd already had made this connection between brain size and bipedalism:
http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-04-evolution-human-super-brain-tied-bipedalism.html
 
Using fossil teeth to figure out what early humans ate:
http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-04-teeth-menus-ancestors.html

More on afarensis and butchering of animals:
http://www.scientificamerican.com/blog/post.cfm?id=did-lucys-species-butcher-animals-2011-04-13

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