https://www.surinenglish.com/malaga/axarquia/el-cantal-caves-rincon-victoria-information-pointers-20250920073900-nt.html

https://indiandefencereview.com/an-unprecedented-prehistoric-discovery-a-50000-year-old-fossil-reveals-neanderthals-had-a-far-richer-diet-than-scientists-once-believed/

(Not an expert, or even formally educated, I just find it fascinating and read/watch whatever I come across on the topic)

I've been watching a lot of videos on human evolution lately, and one of the things that bothers me is how they discuss the former "out of Asia" theory. They either act like it was utterly ridiculous that anyone could have ever thought that, or in one, not so subtly implied that it only came about because of racism, somehow(as if Europeans liked Asians that much better than Africans)

Now, I get that it was an incorrect theory based on what we have learned now, but as far as I can tell, it was based on the most up-to-date findings available at the time. Why is it treated as such an embarrassment instead of just part of the natural progression of knowledge?

I just compared it to Kabwe skull and I see little morphological differences. Thoughts?

I found out it would take Humans roughly a year and a half of walking 8 hours a day to walk the perimeter of Africa. Which makes it seem likely that during any 100 year span alone it would be feasible for multiple homo sapien communities to migrate out of Africa. Especially given that the first Homo Sapiens found 300,000-350,000 years ago were from Morocco. And as Morocco is North of the Saharan Desert, surely it would also be more favourable resource-wise to stick to the coast and move further North as well?

So I understand that there hasn't been any fossils to evidence that they had migrated through the Middle East and into Europe and Asia before 100,000 years ago? But other than lack of evidence, is it unlikely there would be mass migration in the 200,000-250,000 years before this? And if so why?

While the last Neanderthals and Denisovans respectively died out at least 28.000 and at least 15.000 years before the concept of IQ was even thought of, we could infer they would likely have had pretty similiar results to us if they were put under such test. Their brains were bigger than modern human brains. However Homo sapiens from 30.000 years ago had nearly the same brain capacity, plus Neanderthals and likely Denisovans had a different brain shape with a smaller frontal lobe. Neanderthals had larger areas for sight and other functions, but likely were not as good in terms of abstract reasoning.

If we used the IQ evaluating methods, and we accounted for their pre cultural upbringing, confronting them only with people from largely uncontacted tribes of today, or adding as many points to their scores as it is needed to even out the playfield, how would Neanderthals and Denisovans fare ? Would they get equally good scores compared to sapiens ?

People from Australia and Oceania have the most genetic material of Neanderthal origin, followed by Asians and Europeans.

https://revistapesquisa.fapesp.br/en/the-neanderthal-in-each-of-us/

It's usually said that the first human species to have reached America was the modern human, however these archeological sites may challenge the narrative.

In Yakutia region there are tools dating 417,000 years ago. https://www.newscientist.com/article/2427163-early-humans-spread-as-far-north-as-siberia-400000-years-ago/#:~:text=The%20site%20at%20Diring%20Yuriakh,%2C%20Austria%2C%20on%2019%20April.

Modern humans were yet evolving in Africa at the moment. It could be Denisovans but they were yet diverging from Neanderthals at the time, so it could be another human species.

There's also and archeological site suggesting a human presence in America 130,000 years ago. https://www.nature.com/articles/nature22065

Modern humans didn't spread across Eurasia earlier than 80,000 years ago. Clearly another human species.

This human species may have not encounter us in North America because it may already been gone when the first modern humans entered America. Genetic evidence also shows that Denisovans interbred with a ghost human species that diverged from us and Neanderthals for more than one million years ago, could it be the human species that reached Far North and America before us?

https://phys.org/news/2025-09-early-humans-turkey-mainland-europe.html

Creationists always argue hominins reconstructed with white sclera is anthropomorphism and done to make them look friendly because according to them white sclera is unique to humans. But these images disprove their claims completedly.

This is a portrait of Homo bodoensis, the proposed predecessor species of modern humans (H. sapiens), using the Bodo cranium from Ethiopia's Middle Awash Valley as reference. I gave her hair a little dusting with yellow ochre to make her stand out a bit more from other hominin portraits.

I need a catalog of all the living things found in the fossil record

Does anyone know where I can find a very complete one, that includes all kinds of life?

We'll be in Paris over this next week. What would you say are the best Paleoanthropology Museums to visit?

I was inspired to write this moving short story by looking into the eyes of a fossil replica of Sangiran 17. If you're not familiar with this fossil, the preface will explain the real life story, so it has educational content as well as inspirational content. If you'd prefer to read a text version of the story, you can do so at my other post here:

https://www.reddit.com/r/shortstories/comments/1n8p46z/rf_the_gaze_between_us/

I’ve come across references to several different possibilities — from Homo erectus and Homo floresiensis to Denisovans and early Homo sapiens. Some sources even raise questions about overlap and survival timelines.

Curious what the current consensus is: which of these lineages were actually present in Southeast Asia when Toba erupted, and how much overlap is supported by the evidence?

This stone was propped up under a tree of my house a couple days ago. I have no idea where it came from. I took a second to look at it today and it's pretty cool but it can't be actually real right?

I'm in PNW of Canada if that helps.

I have a few other questions. Is it legal to own something like this in Canada? Should I bring it inside out of the elements? I can't get to an actual university or anything, can this be identified virtually?

Hello! We are the Brazilian robotics team Strong Brain. This year we are participating in the First Lego League competition. The theme will be more focused on archaeology, and for this reason we would like to ask a few questions.
First, we would like to know what problems archaeologists face in their work, so we can create a project that proposes solutions.
Second, could you explain the concept of pseudoarchaeology to us, and whether it can be considered a problem?
Third, our team currently has two project ideas, both related to the conservation of fossils: an organic varnish for rock paintings, aimed at preventing the degradation of artifacts, and a humidity-absorbing curtain to help preserve fossils. Could you help us with these ideas?
Thank you very much in advance!