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Last Updated September 17, 2001

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• Major Hominid Find in Southern Africa (BBC)(9/14/01)

• Pre-Neandertal Humans Developed Social Skills Earlier Than Thought (9/10/01)

• Arctic River Bank Fuels an Early Human Mystery (Washington Post) (9/9/01)

• Meet the Neanderthals (BBC) (8/2/01)

• Earliest Human Ancestors Discovered in Ethiopia (7/11/01)

• Homo Erectus And Homo Sapiens Did Little Interbreeding (5/14/01)

• Relics: New Hominid Skull (Nature)(3/21/01)

• 'Oldest' Ape-man Fossils Revealed (BBC) (2/7/01)

• Early Modern Humans Won Hand Over Fist (Nature) (2/5/01)

• Climate Changes Played Role In Early Human Evolution (1/23/01)

• Ancient Tools Suggest Termite Foraging (ABC News) (1/16/01)

• Fossil Challenge to Africa Theory (BBC)(1/9/01)

• Diet Diverged In Earliest Human Ancestors, Researchers Find (12/27/00)

• Humans Did Come Out of Africa, Says DNA (Nature)(12/5/00)

• 'Oldest' Ape-Man Fossils Unearthed (BBC On-Line) (12/4/00)

• DNA clues to Neanderthals (BBC ON LIne) (10/12/00)

• Kennewick Decision (ABC News)(9/25/00)

• 'Lump of Rock' Turns Out to Be World's First Sculpture (National Geographic)(9/25/00)

• Stone-Made Music (ABC News)(includes audio)(9/8/00)

• Mixed Human Origins (New Scientist)(8/2/00)

• Woven Cloth Dates Back 27,000 Years (BBC OnLine) (6/14/00)

• Neandertal Bone Chemistry Provides Food for Thought (6/13/00)

• Two Caves with Paleolithic Paintings Discovered in France (National Geographic) (6/6/00)

• Stone Tools Reveal Ancient Seafood Diet (5/30/00)

• Researchers Find Skull Remains Pointing to the First Hominids Out of Africa (5/11/00) 

• Coastal Way of Life Existed 125,000 Years Ago for Ancient Humans (ABC News) (5/3/00)

• Earliest Evidence of Art Found (BBC Online) (Includes audio) (5/2/00)

• Ape-Man Fossils Shed Light on Human Dawn (National Geographic)(4/27/00)

• Complete Pre-Human Skull Found in South Africa (National Geographic) (4/24/00)

• Scientists to Begin Kennewick Man DNA Studies (ABC News) (4/22/00)

• Scientists Prove Cactus Hill Artifacts Pre-Date Clovis (National Geographic) (4/5/00)

• Neanderthal DNA Confirms Distinct History (Nature) (3/28/00)

• Single Mutation Led to Language (BBC OnLine) (3/28/00)

• Bone Study Suggests Ancestors Were Knuckle-Walkers (Nature)(3/22/00)

• Oldest Stone Axes in China Found (ABC News) (3/2/00)

• World's Oldest Building Discovered (BBC OnLine) (3/1/00)

• Researchers to Try to Extract DNA from Kennewick Man (CNN) (2/24/00)

• Relics : Harking Back (Nature) (2/22/00)

• Ape-Man: Origin of Sophistication (BBC OnLine) (2/22/00)

• Old World Origins of First Americans Revealed in Analysis of Skulls (2/18/00)

• Dueling Theories of Human Evolution (National Geographic) (2/4/00)

• Kennewick Controversey Continues (ABC News) (2/2/00)

• Ice Age Clothing Said to be More Advanced than Previously Thought (2/1/00)

• Tests Show Kennewick Man’s Age (ABC News) (1/13/00)

• Child's Neolithic Remains Oldest in Cyprus (ABC News) (12/30/99)

• African Ape-Man's Hand Unearthed (BBC) (Includes Audio) (12/15/99)

• Human Route Out of Africa Suggested (11/30/99)

• Prehistoric Man To Debut on Web (Discovery Channel) (11/25/99)

• Neanderthals Worked Themselves to Death (Discovery Channel)(11/19/99)

• Prehistoric Tropical Tools: Form Not Related To Function (11/11/99)

• First Americans from Europe? (ABC News) (11/1/99)

• First Farmers Discovered (BBC OnLine) (10/28/99)

• Scientists Document Most Recent Date for Neandertals (10/25/99)

• Early Crossings- Scientists Debate Who Sailed to the New World First (ABC News) (10/25/99)

• Unraveling the Kennewick Man Mystery (ABC News) (10/15/99)

• Oldest bread in Britain (BBC OnLine) (10/12/99)

• Some Neanderthals Practiced Cannibalism Shows Find From French Cave (9/30/99)

• BBC News Version of Neanderthal Story Above- Includes photos (9/30/99)

• 'Ancient' Iceman Only 550 Years Old (ABC News) (9/28/99)

• Neanderthals Were Robust Bunch (Discovery Channel) (9/27/99)

• Oldest Playable Musical Instruments Found at Jiahu Early Neolithic Site
  in China (Nature) (9/23/99)

• Ancient Skull an Americas Mystery- Brazilian Skull Oldest Known in Americas (ABC News) (9/21/99)

• DNA Test Sought to Prove Early Europeans in N. America (CNN) (9/8/99)

• Fossil find among the curios (BBC News) (9/7/99)

• Hominid Fossil Says Plenty- Rediscovered Fossil Rustles Family Tree (ABC News) (9/6/99)

• Primate Genus Sheds Light on Great Ape and Human Origins (8/26/99)

• First Americans were Australian (BBC Online) (8/26/99)

• Well-preserved Body Found Under Glacier (ABC News) (8/25/99)

• Cooking Tubers Let Hominids Turn Evolutionary Corner (8/10/99)

• Stone Age Tools, Paintings Found In Red Sea Caves (ABC News) (7/16/99)

• Meat-eating was Essential For Human Evolution (6/14/99)

• Earliest Modern Australian Found? (Discovery On-Line) (6/10/99)

• Oldest Modern Human Footprints found in Europe (BBC On-Line) (6/9/99)

• Ancient Bones May Rewrite Theory of Earliest Americans (CNN) (6/8/99)

• Pre-Neanderthal Pelvis Suggests Brain Prevailed Over Brawn (CNN) (5/21/99)

• Early Hominids Had Sophisticated Tools (ABC News)(5/5/99)

• An Erupting Volcano may Have Claimed the Lives of Human Ancestors
  Living About 18 Million Years Ago in East Africa (BBC Online) (5/3/99)

• Earliest Evidence of Animal Butchery, New Species of Human Ancestor, Found in Ethiopia's Afar Desert (4/22/99)

• Overview of above story with video and audio (4/22/99)

• Bird bones indicate possible human presence in Ice Age Yukon (4/21/99)

• Neanderthals 'Mated with Modern Humans' (BBC On-Line- Includes audio) (4/20/99)

• Clue to Neanderthal-Human Link- Ancient Skeleton May Bridge Gap (ABC News) (4/16/99)

• Why Are We Human? Maybe Evolution Favored An All-Terrain Animal (Washington Post) (4/14/99)

• Bones Date First American- Ancient Woman’s Thigh Bones Unearthed (ABC News) (4/12/99)

• Eve is a Lot Older than Previously Thought (ABC News) 3/10/99)

• Scientists Begin Five Day Study of Kennewick Man  (ABC News) (2/25/99)

• Researchers Disagree Over Whether Neanderthals Could Talk (2/16/99)

• Possible human ancestors lived in Spain 780,000 years ago (10/27/98)
  

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