Sentences with phrase «hominid site»

U-Pb dating of fossil enamel from the Swartkrans Pleistocene hominid site, South Africa.

Fossils are just one piece of the puzzle at the oldest hominid site outside Africa.

«I'd like to see if there is any evidence of stone pieces that could resemble these kinds of technologies at early hominid sites,» he says.

Not exact matches

Famous footprints of nearly 3.7 - million - year - old hominids, found in 1976 at Tanzania's Laetoli site, now have sizable new neighbors.

By 1905, Krapina had yielded more hominid remains than any other site known at the time.

The first hominid expansion from Africa came about 2 million years ago, as revealed by stone tools and an outstanding collection of hominid fossils at the site of Dmanisi in Georgia.

«They have evidence that hominids in Africa had already been impacting the size distribution of mammals on that continent before Homo sapiens evolved,» says paleoecologist Emily Lindsey, assistant curator and excavation site director of the La Brea Tar Pits Museum in Los Angeles, who was not involved in the study.

«Making a case for [hominids] on this side of the Pacific Ocean at 130,000 years ago is a very heavy lift, and this site doesn't make it.»

Director of the Chinese archaeological site of Zhoukoudian near Beijing, Jia helped unearth 45 fossils of Homo erectus, a 1.8 - million - year - old hominid that may be a human ancestor.

The site may give us the first glimpse of how our predecessors lived — it's the only place where early hominids have surfaced in a group.

After comparing the angle in a wide range of fossil hominids and representative modern peoples — urban, foraging and agricultural — Trinkaus concludes that the femoral neck - shaft angles of the Levantine Neanderthals (augmented with material from sites in Iran) are similar to those of other «archaic» humans.

The abstract of this paper reads: The site of Dmanisi, Georgia, has yielded an impressive sample of hominid cranial and postcranial remains, documenting the presence of Homo outside Africa around 1.8 million years ago.

It belonged to an adult male of the species Homo erectus, a.k.a. «Upright Man» and is called «Skull 5» because it was the fifth set of hominid remains recovered at the archeological site, Dmanisi, located in the Caucausus of the Republic of Georgia.

Some 20 upper Paleolithic sites (ranging from 42 to 30 kya) in southern Siberia, below 55 ° latitude, demonstrate adaptive changes in hominid technology (Goebel 1999:213).

The Cradle of Humankind Site comprises a strip of a dozen dolomitic limestone caves containing the fossilised remains of ancient forms of animals, plants and most importantly, hominids.

Yet the site of the hominid speciation action was likely in the tropics, probably somewhere here in Africa.