Ancient man 2024, April

Pithecanthropus or monkey-man ("Javanese man") - fossil human subspecies, considered at one time as an intermediate evolutionary link between Australopithecus and Neanderthal

Cro-Magnons - the common name of the ancient representatives of modern man, who appeared much later than the Neanderthals and coexisted with them for some time (40 - 30,000 years ago)

When someone says that man descended from a monkey, and even refers to Darwin at the same time, then there is no doubt that the author of the theory of the origin of species by natural selection turns over at this moment in a coffin, dreaming of rising from the dead

In Dagestan, archaeologists have discovered the oldest human settlement on the territory of Russia. The sites of the primitive man who lived here about 2 million years ago were named Ainikab, Mukhkai and Gegalashur

About 25 thousand years ago, people began to paint new creatures on the walls of European caves. Among rhinos, wild bulls and other animals, white horses with black spots appeared. What is it - a figment of fantasy or observation

Australopithecus - a genus of fossil higher primates that had signs of bipedal locomotion and anthropoid features in the structure of the skull. Australopithecus skull found Australopithecus baby skull first discovered in South Africa in 1924

For a long time, anthropological scientists around the world have fiercely debated over the remains of miniature people who lived on the Indonesian island about 15 thousand years ago. According to the latest research, these people were not Homo sapiens

It flared up 46 thousand years ago with the extinction of dwarf hominids, often unofficially called "hobbits", a group of Australian scientists led by Thomas Satikna blamed the immediate ancestors of modern people

Scientists have found that the remains, found in Indonesia on the island of Flores, are proof that the ancestor of the Floresian man, or "hobbit," as he was nicknamed for his small stature, is Homo erectus

Paleontologists have discovered a human hearth in the "hobbit cave" on the island of Flores, the presence of which suggests the possibility of coexistence of hobbits and humans 50 thousand years ago, according to an article published in the Journal of Archaeological Science

For a long time, scientists - anthropologists around the world have been fiercely debating the remains of miniature people who lived on the Indonesian island about 15 thousand years ago. According to the latest research, these people were not Homo Sapiens

Analysis of the remains of a representative of a mysterious species, nicknamed the hobbit, showed that this creature is not the ancestor of modern humans. However, the question of who he really is remains open

At the beginning of the 21st century, the whole world was swept by an archaeological fever. Researchers have discovered the remains of a prehistoric tribe whose members did not grow taller than one meter

In 2003, the whole world was seized by a small (literally) fever. Researchers have discovered the remains of a prehistoric tribe whose members did not grow taller than one meter

In the photo: The mummy is in the same state as people first found it. The "Ice Man" Otzi, who lay in the Alpine ice for 5 thousand years, belonged to an ancient family, whose foremother lived about 20 thousand years ago

Even the most ardent fans of Tolkien hardly truly believe that hobbits or, say, gnomes really existed. However, now we have data on the structure of the remains of both

The question of white and bearded people in pre-Columbian America has not yet been resolved, and it is on this that I am concentrating my attention now. To clarify this problem, I crossed the Atlantic on the papyrus boat "Ra - II"

5000 years ago, the Sahara was an oasis. The skeletons of a woman and her two children, who died about 5,000 years ago, were found in the barren Sahara Desert

Google Earth helped Sydney astronomer Duane Hamacher find an ancient crater. Reported by the newspaper The Sydney Morning Herald

World science has reported another sensation. Specialists of the famous German Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology of the Max Planck Society announced the existence of a new, previously unknown species of man

Scientists have clarified the pedigree of prehistoric dwarfs from the island of Flores

Scientists have reconstructed the external appearance of a Neanderthal woman, who was given the name Wilma, using the skull bones

They all resembled people in addition, only they had practically no necks and a heel - lighter than the body. They were people, only small, hairy, with shaggy heads pulled into their shoulders. This story was told by a former military intelligence officer

Scientists have discovered and described in detail a new species of upright creatures that lived in Africa 4.4 million years ago. Found in Ethiopia, the remains of upright creatures of the species Ardipithecus ramidus serve as a long-awaited "missing link" in the chain of human evolution

The prehistoric world of tiny people who hunted dwarf elephants, hamster rats, Komodo monitor lizards and even dragons is amazing

As paleoanthropologist Alexander Belov says in an interview, there are mentions of some ancient giants in many legends, legends and even in sacred books. - The Bible reads: “

Scientists from the Russian Federation conducted a large-scale analysis of the remains of ancient people and found a clear correlation between the peculiarities of the climate in which the ancestors of modern people lived and the structure of their facial bones

Nobody is going to grow old today! Every fourth Russian is sure that old age begins at 64, and almost every fifth - at 74

How can one explain the unusually rapid evolution of man in the last two million years? "War - the father of all, the king of all: she declares some as gods, others - people, some works as slaves, others - free "

The writing of Charles Darwin turned the scientific paradigm of the world upside down. Thanks to the researches of the scientist, mankind rethought its origin and took a fresh look at the history of the Earth

Dental analysis of a 1.2 million-year-old tooth that once belonged to one of the earliest human ancestors has shed light on what ancient hominins ate. Hope you have strong stomachs because the following doesn't sound very appetizing

Anthropologists have found that the size of a person's teeth and the strength of his bite decreased due to the appearance in the diet of meat processed with the help of stone tools. The study was published in the journal Nature

Scientists from the University of Mainz in Germany made an amazing discovery thanks to the skulls found in Iran. It destroyed the established opinion about the "Aryan" origin of the inhabitants of Europe

Explore the caves of Pesch-Merle, Font-de-Gaume and Ruffignac in the south of France, do not forget about their Spanish counterparts and enjoy some wonderful examples of fine art

Many archaeological finds were once among the first people to live on our planet. Perhaps they had a deeper knowledge of the universe, and dense primitive tribes worshiped them as gods

Probably, some of the oldest relatives of modern humans existed until relatively recent times, remaining almost unchanged. This is the conclusion reached by researchers who studied the bones found in the Deer Cave in China

Two meters long, made of spruce, pointed at one end. In general, the usual pointed stick, only its widest and most massive part is in the front third - - a sure sign that the weapon is throwable. One detail: he is 400 thousand

With the new DNA analysis methods available to researchers today, our understanding of how humans spread across the globe is becoming more and more complex

Paleontologists have found new evidence that the famous Lucy, now considered the "foremother" of our kind, spent a lot of time on the branches of trees, and not only traveled across the plains, according to an article published in the magazine PLOS ONE

Anthropologists found that the size of the teeth of hominids decreased during evolution