Sentences with phrase «for early hominin»

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.

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).

Not exact matches

Identification of in vivo sulci on the external surface of eight adult chimpanzee brains: implications for interpreting early hominin endocasts.

Evidence that some chimps routinely eschew the safety of treetops to sleep on the ground raises the possibility that some early hominins did too — with possible implications for their cognitive development.

Professional anatomists analyzed 3D scans of the bone and concluded that it was a match for our own species, rather than another early hominins such as Neandertals or a member of Australopithecus.

The skeleton, along with others of the species found so far only at Malapa, are responsible for setting off a new golden age of early hominin fossil discovery in South Africa.

Entombed for millions of years deep within South Africa's Sterkfontein Cave, one of the most complete early hominin fossils ever discovered is reshuffling our family tree.

More recent fossil discoveries in the same region, including the iconic 3.7 million year old Laetoli footprints from Tanzania which show human - like feet and upright locomotion, have cemented the idea that hominins (early members of the human lineage) not only originated in Africa but remained isolated there for several million years before dispersing to Europe and Asia.

The body dimensions used in the model — 30 kg for females, 55 kg for males — were based on a group of early human ancestors, or hominins, such as Australopithicus afarensis, the species that includes the famous Ethiopian fossil «Lucy.»

No earlier hominin had ever created such a specialized technology for systematic fishing.

«Considered in total, this study provides important early archaeological evidence for meat eating, hunting and scavenging behaviors - cornerstone adaptations that likely facilitated brain expansion in human evolution, movement of hominins out of Africa and into Eurasia, as well as important shifts in our social behavior, anatomy and physiology,» Ferraro said.

The proof for this comes from fossil evidence, which shows that the neocortex expanded and reorganized over time in early hominins.

The hunt for food led hominins to cast the first stone half a million years ago — 200,000 years earlier than we thought.

«One of our major results is that we found no evidence that the earliest members of our genus differed in body mass from earlier australopiths (some of the earliest species of hominins),» said Dr. Grabowski, who is also a Fulbright scholar at the Centre for Ecological and Evolutionary Synthesis at the University of Oslo.

«This study debunks the one that suggests that until the origin of our own genus, for one reason or another — and the usual explanation is not enough meat in the diet — all early hominins were small - bodied.

Dr Karen Hardy, lead author and Honorary Research Associate at the University of York and ICREA Research Professor at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, said: «Obtaining evidence for any aspect of hominin life at this extremely early date is very challenging.

It remains unclear what hominin species was responsible for the manufacture of the earlier and later stone tool assemblages from Jubbah, and it is entirely possible that more than one species was involved.

Over the last few decades, however, as subsequent discoveries pushed back the date for the earliest stone tools to 2.6 million years ago (Ma) and the earliest fossils attributable to early Homo to only 2.4 - 2.3 Ma, there has been increasing openness to the possibility of tool manufacture before 2.6 Ma and by hominins other than Homo.

For one, what could have caused hominins to start knapping tools at such an early date?

The Zhirendong hominins, for instance, could represent an exodus of early modern humans from Africa between 120,000 and 80,000 years ago.

Researchers are examining the emergence of material culture here, and its indications for the cognitive evolution of Early Stone Age hominins are intriguing.