In The News: Department of Anthropology
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People living at the La Quemada archaeological site 1,500 years ago would eat their enemies then hang up their bones for display.
Geo News
A 2.8-million-year-old jawbone fossil with five intact teeth unearthed in an Ethiopian desert is pushing back the dawn of humankind by about half a million years.
The discovery of the oldest remains of human ancestors could prove that we evolved from different species
Around 400,000 years older than previous discovery of homo lineage, 2.8m-year-old jaw and five teeth was found on rocky slope in Afar region
The Weekend Australian
A PIECE of jawbone with teeth attached, uncovered in Ethiopia, is the earliest known fossil of the genus Homo, to which humans belong, researchers said yesterday.
It lived in Ethiopia and had characteristics similar to those of the australopithecines, but closer to those of the genus Homo