#Paleoanthropology

Recent research has focused new attention on the earliest fossil samples of Homo erectus, more than 1.8 million years ago. One candidate found in 1974 is a #hominin hip bone
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Lots of #paleoanthropology papers out this week. I love new facts, but #anthropology and #science have always been, and still is, political. Those in our field should act braver
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There is an archaeology of racism that needs to get into our syllabi. Identity and violent death: Contextualizing lethal gun violence within the African American community of Dallas, TX (1900—1907)
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Last night, I watched the @NatGeoChannel documentary #Jane—I wanted to see it for a while, but now that I have access to Disney+, it seemed a good time to catch
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[THREAD] For @sciam’s 175th birthday, I looked at what scientists have learned about human origins since the magazine debuted in 1845. Pretty much everything we know about the evolution of
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