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Radio report about a research team's discovery, in a Pleistocene cave site in Atapuerca, Spain, of
a new species of hominid (Homo antecessor) that may be the common ancestor of both modern humans
and Neanderthals.
http://www.sciencefriday.com/pages/1997/May/hour1_053097.html
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Peter Brown's Australian and Asian Palaeoanthropology
Covers the hominid fossil record from Australia, East Asia and South-East Asia. Archaic and modern
Homo sapiens, as well as Homo erectus, are discussed. Also includes a PDF field guide to the human
skeleton, and downloadable data files of anthropometric data on various historical and modern Asian
and Australian collections.
http://www-personal.une.edu.au/~pbrown3/palaeo.html
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Genus Homo
Phylogeny, morphology and life history.
http://citd.scar.utoronto.ca/ANTD15/Bill/multi-media.html
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Atapuerca, a World Heritage Site
Extensive discussion of the Spanish area's three archaeological sites, including fossils of Homo
antecessor and Homo heidelbergensis. Features photo albums, discussion of stone toolmaking, VRML
models of skull reconstructions, and a discussion of how H. antecessor forced a revision of the
Homo family tree.
http://www.ucm.es/info/paleo/ata/english/
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