Did you know?

• Physical anthropology really got its start in southeast Asia with the discoveries of so-called Java Man in the late 1800s. But over the years since, major attention has shifted to Africa.

• Homo sapiens are the only one that have a chin.

• Chinese archaeologists have unearthed relics of musical instruments from a complex of tombs dating back thousands of years in Zaoyang city, Hubei province. A stringed instrument “Se” and a frame to hold chime bells were among the items excavated from the grave site. The plucked stringed instrument is said to be the earliest ever found in China. 

• The discovery of a 1.8 million-year-old skull has offered evidence that humanity's early ancestors emerged from Africa as a single adventurous species, not several species as believed, drastically simplifying the story of human evolution.

• Archaeologists have uncovered 20 Stone-Age skeletons in and around a rock shelter in Libya’s Sahara desert.
  The skeletons date between 8,000 and 4,200 years ago, meaning the burial place was used for millennia. People throughout time may have kept it, and they may  have buried their people, over and over, generation after generation.

• A 6,000 year old Tenerian skeleton found in the Sahara with its middle finger in its mouth.