# homo (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 2 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover homo. Page: Feed: --- ## [Stone Tool Shapes Suggest Neanderthals Reached Northern Arabia by 55,000 Years Ago](https://www.anthropology.net/p/stone-tool-shapes-suggest-neanderthals) _2026-08-19 · Anthropology.net_ New dating at a lakeside site in the Nefud, plus a comparison of 704 Levallois flakes, puts a familiar Levantine population deeper into the desert than any fossil can currently confirm. ## [The Case for Folding Australopithecus and Paranthropus Into Homo](https://www.anthropology.net/p/the-case-for-folding-australopithecus) _2026-08-19 · Anthropology.net_ A new synthesis argues that the three-genus framework at the heart of paleoanthropology is not a phylogenetic hypothesis but a leftover habit, and that the field knows it. ## [Two Neanderthal Pelvises Suggest the Modern Male Pelvis Is the Anomaly](https://www.anthropology.net/p/two-neanderthal-pelvises-suggest) _2026-08-18 · Anthropology.net_ A new analysis argues the hip sockets of Homo sapiens males migrated forward, turning the pelvis into a spring, and that nearly every other male-female difference falls out of that one shift. ## [A Painted Stone Reached Wetar Island Before Pottery Did](https://www.anthropology.net/p/a-painted-stone-reached-wetar-island) _2026-08-17 · Anthropology.net_ What a small red plaque from a cave in eastern Indonesia says about what Austronesian voyagers actually carried across the Pacific. ## [A body built for winters that no longer exist](https://www.anthropology.net/p/a-body-built-for-winters-that-no) _2026-08-17 · Anthropology.net_ A genomic study of 42 ancient hunter-gatherers traces cold-survival genes back to an isolated Ice Age population, and finds a “ghost population” in Hokkaido that vanished from the record ## [Three Small Cups That Rewrite the Map of Medieval Chinese Metallurgy](https://www.anthropology.net/p/three-small-cups-that-rewrite-the) _2026-08-14 · Anthropology.net_ Crucibles from a government workshop in Guangzhou push the archaeological record of Chinese brass-making back six centuries, and point toward the sea rather than the Silk Road ## [Two Leg Bones from a Drowned Taiwanese Channel Suggest Some Denisovans Were Ice Age Giants](https://www.anthropology.net/p/two-leg-bones-from-a-drowned-taiwanese) _2026-08-14 · Anthropology.net_ Proteins extracted from a femur and tibia dredged from the Taiwan Strait indicate that at least one regional Denisovan population grew unusually large, and nobody is quite sure why. ## [Ancient DNA Reveals Two Separate Migrations Shaped the Pacific’s Most Diverse Islands](https://www.anthropology.net/p/ancient-dna-reveals-two-separate) _2026-08-14 · Anthropology.net_ A three-thousand-year genomic record from Fiji, Vanuatu, and Tonga shows how later arrivals, not the first settlers, built the region’s deep cultural diversity. ## [Blood, Lime, and the Chemistry of Memory](https://www.anthropology.net/p/blood-lime-and-the-chemistry-of-memory) _2026-08-14 · Anthropology.net_ How a matriarchal society in Bronze Age China may have used blood to fuse red pigment to limestone cliffs for two thousand years ## [A Cave in the Söğütlü Valley, and a Fireplace 15,000 Years Old](https://www.anthropology.net/p/a-cave-in-the-sogutlu-valley-and) _2026-08-13 · Anthropology.net_ What a single trench in Türkiye’s eastern Black Sea region reveals about a gap in the map of Ice Age hunter-gatherers ## [Earn crypto for idle GPUs (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/BCH5CmSWhkOg) _2026-08-13 · **Sponsored**_ Run one CLI, host Qwen/Llama/Mistral, and earn BTC, ETH, SOL, or USDC ## [Human Centromeres Are the Most Mutable Part of the Genome, and Some Carry Neanderthal and Denisovan DNA](https://www.anthropology.net/p/human-centromeres-are-the-most-mutable) _2026-08-12 · Anthropology.net_ A global study of 2,110 centromeres reveals rapid mutation hotspots, inherited "three-headed" chromosomes, and ancient DNA surviving over 40,000 generations. ## [Rain, Not Selection: What Actually Made the First Cultivated Grains Bigger](https://www.anthropology.net/p/rain-not-selection-what-actually) _2026-08-12 · Anthropology.net_ New isotope evidence from Jordan suggests the earliest “domestic-sized” barley wasn’t bred that way. It just grew somewhere wetter. ## [Neanderthals in a Romanian Cave Were Making Tools From Whatever Bones Were Lying Around](https://www.anthropology.net/p/neanderthals-in-a-romanian-cave-were) _2026-08-11 · Anthropology.net_ A new analysis of over 10,000 bone fragments from the Eastern Carpathians finally closes a geographic gap in the record of Neanderthal bone tool use ## [Two Weeks to Move a Mountain of Mud](https://www.anthropology.net/p/two-weeks-to-move-a-mountain-of-mud) _2026-08-11 · Anthropology.net_ What a 500-hectare stretch of Colombian wetland just taught archaeologists about power, planning, and who actually builds big things ## [A Scallop Shell Bead Buried 68 Kilometers from the Sea Rewrites the Timeline of California’s Inland Trade Networks](https://www.anthropology.net/p/a-scallop-shell-bead-buried-68-kilometers) _2026-08-10 · Anthropology.net_ An 8,500-year-old Monterey ornament reveals coastal luxury goods reached inland trade routes 5,000 years earlier than known. ## [A Hunter-Gatherer's Genome Explains Why the Yayoi Rice Farmers Weren't the Whole Story](https://www.anthropology.net/p/a-hunter-gatherers-genome-explains) _2026-08-07 · Anthropology.net_ High-coverage ancient DNA from two skeletons buried five thousand years apart shows Japan's deepest dietary adaptations predate agriculture entirely ## [The Brain Ran on Fruit Long Before It Ran on Meat](https://www.anthropology.net/p/the-brain-ran-on-fruit-long-before) _2026-08-06 · Anthropology.net_ A new modeling study suggests glucose from fruit and honey, not protein from meat, was the real fuel behind four million years of human brain evolution. ## [Growth Hormone, Faster Growth, and a Neanderthal in the Gym](https://www.anthropology.net/p/growth-hormone-faster-growth-and) _2026-08-05 · Anthropology.net_ A Neanderthal-derived receptor variant makes cells grow faster, and some people alive today are still carrying it around ## [What the Inside of an 850,000-Year-Old Skull Can Tell You](https://www.anthropology.net/p/what-the-inside-of-an-850000-year) _2026-08-03 · Anthropology.net_ Three parietal fragments from Gran Dolina just gave Homo antecessor its first adult cranial profile, and the layers inside its skull look surprisingly familiar ## [Two Infants, a Sewer, and What Counts as Care in Byzantine Ephesos](https://www.anthropology.net/p/two-infants-a-sewer-and-what-counts) _2026-08-03 · Anthropology.net_ A grave built inside an abandoned Roman latrine turns out to be one of the gentlest funerary arrangements archaeologists have found from the period. ## [100,000 Bonus Points Await You (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/QNxaqn5eM5KG) _2026-08-03 · **Sponsored**_ Earn 100,000 bonus points after spending $5,000 in the first 3 months. ## [Teaching a Machine to Sort Five Thousand Years of Charred Seeds](https://www.anthropology.net/p/teaching-a-machine-to-sort-five-thousand) _2026-08-01 · Anthropology.net_ An AI system trained on 8,340 charred seed images now does in seconds what took archaeobotanists years to learn ## [Two Ghosts in the Genome](https://www.anthropology.net/p/two-ghosts-in-the-genome) _2026-07-30 · Anthropology.net_ How a new method for reading DNA’s family tree found evidence of ancient human relatives who left no bones behind ## [Two Bodies From Chile Just Rewrote the Genetic History of Smallpox in the Americas](https://www.anthropology.net/p/two-bodies-from-chile-just-rewrote) _2026-07-30 · Anthropology.net_ A now-extinct viral lineage, recovered from a mummified Inca-colonial community, gives colonization-era disease history its first direct molecular anchor ## [Semana Passada, AGORA! 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