Digital reconstruction of a crushed skull from an ancient human relative could rewrite the timeline of human evolution, researchers said. A cranium dubbed Yunxian 2 was found in the Yunxian region of ...

Combining techniques such as geoarchaeology, sedimentology, luminescence dating, and lithic analysis, they discovered that the mountain basin once held a lake in the Pleistocene and Early Holocene, up ...

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But experts not involved in the work cautioned that the findings were likely to be disputed, and pointed to ongoing uncertainties in the timeline of human evolution ... an anthropologist at the ...

Researchers digitally reconstructed a crushed skull and concluded our species is 1 million years old, igniting a debate over the start date of Homo sapiens. He lived hundreds of thousands of years ago ...