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The Canadian anatomist Davidson Black died at his desk in 1934 with the skull of Sinanthropus from Locus E beside him. This #hominin skull was unearthed by Wenzhong Pei in 1929 deep within a fissure cave in Longgushan, or "Dragon Bone Hill" #paleoanthropology

Some skulls of Homo erectus have exceptionally thick cranial bones. This #hominin individual from Sangiran, Indonesia, has a thickened bar of bone on the back, known as the nuchal torus, defining the area above the trapezius muscle. #paleoanthropology

The AL 400-1 #hominin jaw was chewed by a carnivore before it was fossilized 3.3 million years ago. This individual is attributed to Australopithecus afarensis. #paleoanthropology

BOU-VP-16/1 is one of three #hominin skulls from near Herto, Ethiopia, that bear cutmarks or other signs of mortuary practices. The discoveries came near some of the latest Acheulean handaxe-dominated assemblages in Africa, around 155,000 years old. #paleoanthropology

Estimates of the age of fossil #hominin children have come a long way in 50 years. Still, we have much to learn about the variation in enamel growth rates in some species, including Australopithecus afarensis. The LH 2 child died at around 3.25 years of age. #paleoanthropology

When John Robinson ran out of government funding and left Swartkrans for a month, he returned to find miners blasting out dripstone to sell to a toothpaste manufacturer. Over the next two years, his team retrieved #hominin fossils from the miners. #paleoanthropology #FossilFriday

By the late 1950s, scientists had recovered #hominin fossils that showed that Australopithecus and Paranthropus were bipeds in a humanlike pattern. The pelvis evolved a form different from any other living or fossil primates. #paleoanthropology

We are working to discover which groups of #Neanderthals became ancestors of today's people, and where the networks of these ancient people interconnected. Revealing those links to our deep shared past helps forge new connections today. That's my kind of #Neanderthalthinking

Recent archaeological work has uncovered the aesthetic cultures of #Neandertals, who sometimes decorated themselves with colors, shells, talons, and feathers, marked and engraved cave walls, and had an ear for language. #Neanderthalthinking

Around 120,000 years ago, during extraordinary period of warm global temperatures known as the Eemian, a community of #Neanderthals left the remains of more than 30 individuals in a rock shelter near Krapina, Croatia. They hunted woolly rhinoceros. #Neanderthalthinking