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Neanderthals hunted and butchered lions in ancient Germany
Cave lion fossils from Germany exhibit hunting wounds and butchery marks
Oldest wooden structures almost 500,000 years old
Earliest use of wood for structural purposes discovered in Zambia
Humans carved sloth bones into personal ornaments
Researchers use ancient jewelry to unravel the story of human migration and behavior
Ancient hominin cannibalism?
Cut marks on a 1.45 million year old leg bone are potential evidence for hominins butchering and eating each other
DNA of individual identified from ancient jewelry
Small deer tooth pendant bridges gap between aDNA and archaeology
No single site for modern human origins
Modern Humans originate from two or more African paleo-populations
Oldowan tools at 3 million years ago
Oldowan stone tools were at least 400,000 years older and more widespread than previously believed
Neanderthals roasted crab legs on the Portuguese coast
New evidence for consumption of marine resources for another hominin species
Denisovan tooth from Laos, Southeast Asia
Growing fossil evidence tracks genetic evidence for expanded Denisovan range
Modern humans move into Neanderthal territories
Homo sapiens fossils found in Europe 10,000 years earlier than thought