Ancient skull from China may shake up timeline of human evolution

Researchers used sophisticated scanning and digital reconstruction techniques to determine the original shape of the skull, ...

World’s oldest human mummies were smoke-dried 10,000 years ago, new research shows

The world’s oldest human mummies were preserved using smoke drying techniques 10,000 years ago, new research has found. A study of dozens of corpses found across 11 burial sites in Southeast Asia and ...
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The World’s Oldest Mummies Might Be These Smoke-Dried, 12,000-Year-Old Skeletons From Southeast Asia

The human remains predate Chile's Chinchorro mummies and the famously preserved pharaohs of ancient Egypt by millennia ...

Oldest known evidence of human mummification discovered in Asia, scientists say

An examination of charring on skeletons showed signs they had been exposed to low heat over long periods of time, which would have dried out and preserved the bodies.
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12 000-year-old human skeleton unearthed in northern province Ninh Binh

The skull was shattered by a rock falling from the cave ceiling, but it was still sufficient to reconstruct nearly the entire ...
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An unusual quartz-tipped tool killed a man 12,000 years ago. Scientists are puzzling over who wielded it

(CNN) — A well-preserved human skeleton that scientists recently excavated in Vietnam dates back about 12,000 years ago to the Ice Age and contains the oldest human mitochondrial DNA found in the ...
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The oldest human mummies were slowly smoked 14,000 years ago

For at least 10,000 years, humans across South-East Asia were being carefully preserved after death by being smoke-dried – a ...
Men's Journal

Archaeologists Unearth Continent’s Oldest Human Face

The discovered fossil predates Homo erectus and could change what we know about ancient civilizations. Archaeologists have discovered fossilized facial bones of an ancient human race which lived ...