1 million-year-old skull from China holds clues to the origins of Neanderthals, Denisovans and humans
The unreconstructed Yunxian 2 skull is housed at the Hubei Provincial Museum. (Image credit: Gary Todd/ Wikimedia Commons( CC0) ) Scientists have actually practically rebuilded a crushed and distorted 1…
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Skull of bear held captive to fight Roman gladiators discovered near ancient amphitheater in Serbia
Archaeologists discovered a fragmented brown bear skull near the ancient Viminacium amphitheater. (Image credit: Nemanja Marković et al; Antiquity Publications Ltd) The battered skull of a brown bear found near…
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Ancient skull may have been half human, half Neanderthal child
The mandible had actually been separated from the skeleton, and both it and the neurocranium are insufficient, so they were rebuilded and combined with plaster. CT scanning made it possible…
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‘Alien’ skull of toddler is actually evidence of long-standing practice of head shaping
The skull of a kid who passed away in the 15th or 16th century was discovered by employees digging a pipeline in northwest Argentina. (Image credit: Provincial Directorate of Anthropology/…
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Skull long thought to be Cleopatra’s sister’s was actually a young boy
Researchers have actually shown that an ancient human skull excavated from a burial place at Ephesos was not that of Arsinoë IV, half-sister to Cleopatra VII. Rather, it’s the skull…
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