Not exact matches
The study
of ancient proteins, paleoproteomics is an emerging interdisciplinary
field that draws from chemistry and molecular biology as much as paleontology,
paleoanthropology and archaeology.
Nicknamed hobbit people, Homo floresiensis «caught the
field off guard — they were the black swan
of paleoanthropology,» says Bill Jungers
of Stony Brook University in New York.
Back in December 2007, archaeologist Zhan - Yang Li
of the Institute
of Vertebrate Paleontology and
Paleoanthropology (IVPP) in Beijing was wrapping up his
field season in the town
of Lingjing, near the city
of Xuchang in the Henan province in China (about 4000 kilometers from the Denisova Cave), when he spotted some beautiful quartz stone tools eroding out
of the sediments.