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Archaeological discoveries are happening faster than ever before, helping refine the human story

  • Written by Elizabeth Sawchuk, Postdoctoral Fellow and Research Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Stony Brook University (The State University of New York)
Nearly a century ago, archaeologists started to shift the focus of human origins research from Europe to Africa’s ‘cradles of humankind’ like Oldupai (Olduvai) Gorge in Tanzania. What will the next big shifts be? Manuel Domínguez-Rodrigo, CC BY-SA

In 1924, a 3-year-old child’s skull found in South Africa forever...

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