A new Homo Erectus specimen from Ethiopia confirms that this species of archaic hominin arose about 2 million years ago in Africa. This species went extinct around 100,000 years ago.
With new paleomagnetic dating results and some description of recently excavated material, Mussi and coworkers show that levels D, E, and F are between 2.02 million and 1.95 million years old. Most interesting is that level D includes what is now the earliest Acheulean assemblage in the world, and level E has produced the partial jaw of a very young Homo erectus individual. The Garba IVE jaw is now one of two earliest H. erectus individuals known anywhere, in a virtual tie with the DNH 134 cranial vault from Drimolen, South Africa.
From John Hawks.
Hi Andrew,
ReplyDeleteDid this paper pass through your light cone? "Time-varying media, relativity, and the arrow of time" Matias Koivurova, Charles W. Robson, and Marco Ornigotti
@Guy
ReplyDeleteI don't recall seeing it (and honestly probably wouldn't have flagged it as notable if I did). Thanks for the head's up.