Spear points with fluted edges prove that early inhabitants traveled all over North America. (Heather Smith) By Keith Randall, Texas A&M University Marketing & Communications Highlights Researchers found that early settlers in the emerging ice-free corridor of interior western Canada were traveled north to Alaska, not south from Alaska, as…
Researchers at work in Rising Star cave. By Keith Randall, Texas A&M Marketing & Communications A research team that included a Texas A&M University anthropologist who determined the fossil remains discovered last year in a South African cave almost certainly coexisted with early Homo sapiens has been named one of…
Preserved maize cobs from the El Gigante rockshelter, Honduras, directly dated by AMS 14C. (Penn State photo) By Keith Randall, Texas A&M Marketing and Communications A team of researchers that includes a Texas A&M University anthropologist has analyzed a trove of ancient maize and their findings cast new light…
Morgan Smith, a Ph.D. candidate in anthropology from Tallahassee, is conducting research that could change current beliefs about how early humans settled the U.S. By Keith Randall, Texas A&M University Marketing and Communications Highlights Determining if humans and ancient mammoths coexisted at the Florida site could change how scientists understand…
”Neo” skull from Lesedi Chamber (left) with DH1 Homo naledi skull from Dinaledi Chamber (right). Photo credit: Wits University/ John Hawks By Keith Randall Texas A&M University Marketing and Communications A group of researchers that includes a Texas A&M University anthropologist have determined that the fossil remains discovered last…
Sharon Gursky By Susannah Hutcheson, Texas A&M University College of Liberal Arts College of Liberal Arts professor Sharon Gursky discovered a new primate species, and it is being renamed in her honor. Gursky, from the Department of Anthropology, is one of the world’s leading experts on tarsiers –…