Sentences with phrase «early hominin sites»

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«The site at Lomekwi provides an ideal window into early hominin behavior across an ancient landscape.

The evidence we found at this site indicates that some hominin species was living in North America 115,000 years earlier than previously thought,» said Judy Gradwohl, president and CEO of the San Diego Natural History Museum, whose paleontology team discovered the fossils, managed the excavation, and incorporated the specimens into the Museum's research collection.

Wonderwerk is one of the earliest sites of evidence for early hominin use of fire — dating back at least around 1 to 1.1 - million years ago.

Even if the ancient inhabitants of the Dmanisi site were not early members of H. erectus, there is still a problem: anthropologists have previously thought that no hominins existed outside of Africa as early as 1.85 million years ago.

The high concentration of these artefacts suggests significant activity at the sites and that they were regularly used by early hominins.

The most important sites, dating between 500,000 to 100,000 years ago were based at the lower end of river valleys, providing ideal bases for early hominins — early humans who lived before Homo sapiens (us).

One of the earliest sites with evidence of persistent fire use is Qesem Cave in Israel, which hominins started using about 400,000 years ago.

The teeth, buried at the fossil site that houses the earliest hominin remains outside Africa (above), came from extinct horses, rhinos, and deer.

Checking the types of animal bones at other early Homo fossil sites out of Africa could show whether the mix of prey species changed when hominins colonized a new site, supporting a «naïve prey» effect.

The area also hosts a remarkable collection of early hominin artifact sites, which are in danger of being damaged or destroyed by the extraction industry's boom and attendant economic activity.

But earlier finds suggest a possible answer: The skull of a 3.3 - million - year - old hominin, Kenyanthropus platytops, was found in 1999 about a kilometer from the tool site.

In combination with an age of 315 ± 34 thousand years (as determined by thermoluminescence dating) 3, this evidence makes Jebel Irhoud the oldest and richest African Middle Stone Age hominin site that documents early stages of the H. sapiens clade in which key features of modern morphology were established.

«Further fieldwork in sediment layers dating 3.3 - 2.6 million years ago is needed to verify that this site in Kenya reflects the emergence of a new hominin (early proto - human) behavior and is not an isolated incidence,» Hovers said.

Researchers unearthed footprints thought to belong to Australopithecus afarensis — one of the earliest hominin species — at a site in Laetoli, Tanzania, in 1976.