Sentences with phrase «early human skull»
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Mar. 18, 2013 — Buried for 100,000 years at Xujiayao in the Nihewan Basin of northern China, the recovered skull pieces of an early human exhibit a now - rare congenital deformation that indicates inbreeding might well have been common among our ancestors, new research from the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Washington University in St. Louis suggests
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Research into lethal wounds found on a human skull may indicate one of the first cases of murder in human history — some 430,000 years ago — and offers evidence of the earliest funerary practices in the archaeological record.
«The morphology of the skull indicates that it is that of a modern human of African origin, bearing characteristics of early European Upper Palaeolithic populations.
The skull was unquestionably from H. sapiens, says Hershkovitz: it was similar in shape to those of earlier African and later European humans.
The displays will include replicas of 76 fossil skulls representing the human family tree as well as life - size reconstructions of faces of early human species.
Dr. Charlier argues that human remains in museums and scientific institutions can be divided into four categories, «ethnographical elements» such as hair samples with no certain identification; anatomical remains such as whole skeletons or skulls; archaeological remains; and more modern collections of skulls, used in now discredited studies in the early 20th century.
The first analyses of skull data from the most recently discovered species of early human suggest that its brain was surprising sophisticated
The team analyzed the projection of the brow ridge, facial shape, and cranial volume of 13 early Homo sapiens that lived before 80,000 years ago; 41 modern humans that lived 38,000 to 10,000 years ago; and skulls from a global sample of 1367 recent humans.
They have thinner brow ridges and less robust skull bones, similar to early modern humans and some other Asian fossils.
About 5,000 years ago, humans used crude stone tools to puncture a hole in a cow's head, making it the earliest known instance of skull surgery in an animal.
About 5,000 years ago, humans used crude stone tools to puncture a hole in a cow's head, making it the earliest known instance of skull surgery in an...
It is similar in shape to recent African skulls as well as to European skulls from the Upper Paleolithic period, but different from most other early anatomically modern humans in the Levant.
This computer reconstruction shows an ancient skull that its discoverers say is the earliest known human ancestor.
This find is a nearly complete fossil skull of a «robust» early human, and has been assigned to the species Australopithecus aethiopicus.
NEW YORK — The skull of a newly discovered 325 - million - year - old shark - like species suggests that early cartilaginous and bony fishes have more to tell us about the early evolution of jawed vertebrates — including humans — than do modern sharks, as was previously thought.
Dead Images explores the contentious legacy of collections of human skulls, assembled during the 19th and early 20th centuries and still held in public institutions in Europe.
Skulls are a recurring image in Zhang Huan's work and stem from the artist's early explorations in performance, inspired by the body and human form.
The Broken Hill skull is the first early human fossil found in Africa and provided the primary evidence to support Darwin's theory of evolution, proposing humans as the natural descendants of primates.
Human skulls, burnt candles, decaying flowers, broken chalices, fallen crowns, jewels and mirrors were typical features of their Vanitas still - lifes, one of the earliest examples of the still life genre in European painting.