Analysis of
ancient skulls suggests a wave of migration before the ancestors of today's Native Americans
Not exact matches
Despite having an unusual
skull, DNA
suggests that
ancient people like Brazil's «Luzia» were related to Native Americans.
Ancient skulls found in Spain reveal how the earliest Neanderthals differed from their ancestors,
suggesting their jaws changed shape to grip objects
Fossil
skulls of two
ancient, mammal - like reptiles
suggest that natural selection for a keener sense of smell was the initial spur behind bigger brains in early mammals, according to a report online today in Science.
An analysis of an
ancient skull from China
suggests it is eerily similar to the earliest known fossils of our species — found in Morocco, some 10,000 kilometres to the west.
Now, the most detailed analysis yet of
ancient American
skulls concludes that there were two distinct waves of colonizers from Asia,
suggesting that another group got here first.
The first results
suggested that the
skull and jaw material, unlike the fossil animal bones from the site, were not very
ancient, which made it seem even more puzzling.