Archaeological News: Texas State University archaeologist helps scientists better understand evolution:
Paleomagnetism – is that how ancient humans attracted the opposite sex?
No, but it is an important technique that allowed Texas State University professor Britt Bousman, in collaboration with Andy Herries of Australia’s La Trobe University, to date a South African excavation site near Johannesburg.
Bousman and an archeology team led by James Brink, head of the Florisbad Quaternary Research Department at the National Museum in Bloemfontein, South Africa, recently uncovered a bone bed. In it they found a human molar and stone tools dating to about one million years ago.
This finding brought scientists a step closer to understanding human evolution.
