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The appearance of early hominins in Eurasia coincided with a reduction in the diversity of the continent's carnivore guild. It has been postulated that this was related to the Oldowan-Acheulean transition, as the development of Acheulean technology signifies a change in human ecology from a passive, scavenging role to that of more active predation.
Stone tools found at the Shangchen site in China and dated to 2.12 million years ago are considered the earliest known evidence of hominins outside Africa, surpassing Dmanisi hominins found in Georgia by 300,000 years, although whether these hominins were an early species in the genus Homo or another hominin species is unknown. [37
However, from recent research it is believed that the ecological crisis resulting from the eruption in c. 38,000 BCE of the super-volcano in the Phlegrean Fields near Naples, which left much of eastern Europe covered in ash, wiped out both the last Neanderthal and the first Homo Sapiens populations of the early Upper Paleolithic.
This was the longest human ocean voyage at the time. [87] [88] Arctic, Siberia: Wrangel Island: 3,400 BP: Chertov Ovrag: Sea-mammal hunting tools; later abandoned, with intermittent settlements 1914–present [89] Pacific: Tonga: 3,180 BP: Pea village on Tongatapu: Radiocarbon dating of a shell found at the site dates the occupation at 3180± ...
Excavation site at Dmanisi in 2007. Dmanisi is located in southern Georgia, about 85 kilometres (52.8 miles) from the country's capital, Tbilisi.It was founded as a city in the Middle Ages and has thus been a site of archaeological interest for some time, with a prominent archaeological excavation site being located within the ruins of the old city on a promontory overlooking the Mashavera and ...
Early hominins in Europe No human fossils have been found at the open-air site — the exposed conditions make it harder for fossils to be preserved. The soil is also acidic, which can accelerate ...
The following tables give an overview of notable finds of hominin fossils and remains relating to human evolution, beginning with the formation of the tribe Hominini (the divergence of the human and chimpanzee lineages) in the late Miocene, roughly 7 to 8 million years ago.
The fossil remains of an early hominid child have been discovered in a cave in South Africa by a team of international and South African researchers. The team announced the discovery of a partial ...