Olduvai Gorge

The Olduvai effect: New questions about meat-eating in human origins

Meta-analysis of butchered animal bones from East African sites shows that long-held assumptions about early hunters may be wrong.

Jun 7 •

How do hominin fossils get their numbers?

Numbers for fossils, like AL 288-1, are nowhere near as iconic as names like “Lucy”, but have an important place in the study of paleoanthropology.

Apr 21 •

The circumstances of the Taung discovery

The textbook story of the fossil leaves out a wider context in which scientists interpreted the first evidence of Australopithecus.

Feb 14 •

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