Return of the Anthropology Thread

[Ivanhoe]

I propose we replace Anno Domini "Common Era" with "Origin Time of the Historical Figure We Can't Name" or OTHFWCN. 

The Normans invaded southern England in 1066 OTHFWCN.

Hope that clarifies things.

 

[sunday]

7 hours ago, Ivanhoe said:

I propose we replace Anno Domini "Common Era" with "Origin Time of the Historical Figure We Can't Name" or OTHFWCN. 

The Normans invaded southern England in 1066 OTHFWCN.

Hope that clarifies things.

 

Another sign that the winner of the Cold War was not the one we thought.

[JWB]

Genes from ancient ancestor may have helped us deal with cold weather but passed on depression (msn.com)

[JWB]

Head lice DNA discovery reveals new details about first Americans (msn.com)

[lucklucky]

Pity they did not showed this in article 

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and an inscription on a 3,700-year-old ivory lice comb that might be the oldest known sentence written with an alphabet.

 

[Ivanhoe]

I assume the anthropologists were inspired by a visit to a local shopping mall;

https://archaeologymag.com/2024/12/homo-juluensis-new-species-of-archaic-human/

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A team of paleoanthropologists, led by Christopher J. Bae from the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa and Xiujie Wu from the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, has introduced Homo juluensis, a newly identified hominin species. This species, whose name translates to “big head,” thrived in eastern Asia between 300,000 and 50,000 years ago, marking a significant addition to the Late Quaternary human lineage.

 

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Homo juluensis is defined by a mix of features found in fossils from sites such as Xujiayao and Xuchang in northern and central China. The fossils include large crania with thick skulls, traits reminiscent of Neanderthals, as well as characteristics shared with modern humans and Denisovans. The species is thought to have been skilled in making stone tools, processing animal hides, and hunting wild horses, which likely contributed to their survival in challenging environments.

For years, paleoanthropologists have grappled with the so-called “muddle in the Middle,” a term describing the confusion surrounding the classification of Middle Pleistocene hominin fossils. Many specimens were grouped into broad categories like “archaic Homo sapiens” or “Middle Pleistocene Homo.” However, Bae and Wu’s work proposes a more nuanced taxonomy, suggesting that eastern Asia hosted at least four distinct hominin species: Homo floresiensis, Homo luzonensis, Homo longi, and the newly named Homo juluensis.

 

Had to look these up, on Wikipedia;

Homo floresiensis   known as "Flores Man" or "Hobbit"

Homo luzonensis, known as Callao Man and locally called "Ubag"

Homo longi, nicknamed 'Dragon Man'; H. longi has been hypothesized to be the same species as the Denisovans, but this cannot be confirmed without genetic testing.

The more people dig, the more complicated our family tree becomes.