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Early Humans May Have Collected Round Stones for Over 1 Million Years
The spheres, made from volcanic basalt and lapilli, were discovered across eight archaeological ... That someone, it now seems, was our ancestors. Possibly Homo erectus, one of the first species to ...
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Text Version of Human Evolution Activity
Other fossils discovered with A ... although more robust (thicker and heavier). Homo erectus was probably the first hominid to use fire. Also known as Homo heidelbergensis, this species has ...
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1.4-Million-Year-Old Skull Fragments Linked to Mystery Human Ancestor
The Homo affinis erectus fragment was discovered in 2022 and is between 1.1 million and 1.4 million years old. The fossil is the earliest human fossil so far found in western Europe, according ...
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Fragments of a face more than a million years old found in Spanish cave
Martinón-Torres said the designation Homo affinis erectus “leaves open the possibility that [Pink] may belong to another species.” The Atapuerca archaeological site, discovered when a railway ...
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Cave discovery reveals previously unknown prehistoric human population in Europe
The team suspects the specimens belonged to Homo erectus, a species well-known from ... at London’s Natural History Museum, said the discovery was a “very important find.” ...