Anthropology
"Human-Faced" Missing Link Found in Spain??
Move over Ida—you're last month's news. There's a new (purported) "missing link" in town. An 11.9-million-year-old fossil ape species with an unusually flat, "surprisingly human" face has been found in Spain.Uncontacted tribe photographed near Brazil-Peru border
SOURCE: Survival - The Movement for Tribal Peoples
Members of one of the world’s last uncontacted tribes have been spotted and photographed from the air near the Brazil-Peru border. The photos were taken during several flights over one of the remotest parts of the Amazon rainforest in Brazil’s Acre state.
‘We did the overflight to show their houses, to show they are there, to show they exist,’ said uncontacted tribes expert José Carlos dos Reis Meirelles Júnior.
Dig Casts New Light On Indian Culture
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/08/21/AR2007082102004.html Dig Casts New Light On Indian Culture Va. Archaeological Findings Unveil Complex Society By Brigid Schulte Washington Post Staff Writer Wednesday, August 22, 2007; Page B01 When archaeologists began digging in a cornfield one steamy summer day on the banks of the York River, they were pretty sure they would find remnants of Werowo comoco, the legendary capital city chosen by Powhatan, the Algonquian paramount chief who once had the power to decide whether the settlers at Jamestown should live or starve. But once the archaeologists began scraping test pits every 50 feet, what they began to unearth was unlike anything they had seen in the region.Odd Skull Boosts Human, Neandertal Interbreeding Theory
Source: http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/08/070802-neanderthals_2.html A human skull from a Romanian bear cave is shaking up ideas about ancient sex. The Homo sapiens skull has a distinctive feature previously found only in Neandertals, providing further evidence of interbreeding between the two species, according to a new study. The human cranium was found during World War II mining operations in 1942, in a cave littered with Ice Age cave bear remains.Human Journey
Source: National Geographic magazine - March 2006
http://www7.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/0603/feature2/index.html
Genetic trails left by our ancestors are leading scientists back across time in an epic discovery of human migration.
Everybody loves a good story, and when it's finished, this will be the greatest one ever told. It begins in Africa with a group of hunter-gatherers, perhaps just a few hundred strong.
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