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Director’s Diary

10.13.21

A study of skull growth and tooth emergence reveals that timing is everything

Paleoanthropologists have wondered for a long time how and why humans evolved molars that emerge at these specific ages and why those ages are so delayed compared to living apes. New research solves this mystery.

10.06.21

Archaeologists find the oldest-known shell beads

Journal Article

Shell beads found in a cave in Morocco are at least 142,000 years old. The archaeologists who found them say they're the earliest-known evidence of a widespread form of human communication.

10.06.21

Grantee Spotlight: Patrick Gathogo

Grantee Spotlight

Dr. Patrick Gathogo is a geologist and research associate at Stony Brook University who is developing a new approach to geochronology that will extend the capability of the standard methods for dating hominid sites.

10.01.21

Live this Month: October

Lunch Break Science

Join The Leakey Foundation for two exciting virtual programs this October!

09.17.21

Bone tools from Morocco indicate the production of clothing by 120,000 to 90,000 years ago

Journal Article

The invention of clothing and the development of the tools needed to create it, are milestones in the story of humanity. A new study, supported in part by The Leakey Foundation, provides strong evidence for the manufacture of clothing as far back as 120,000 years ago.

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