{"href":"http://player.captivate.fm/services/oembed?url=http%3A%2F%2Fplayer.captivate.fm%2Fepisode%2F8459c485-2e22-42fa-997d-2465694f227d","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Captivate.FM","provider_url":"https://www.captivate.fm","width":600,"height":200,"type":"rich","html":"<iframe style=\"width: 100%; height: 200px;\" title=\"The Dirt Caves In: LIVE! - Ep 126\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allow=\"clipboard-write\" seamless src=\"http://player.captivate.fm/episode/8459c485-2e22-42fa-997d-2465694f227d\"></iframe>","title":"The Dirt Caves In: LIVE! - Ep 126","description":"If you were a pre-Homo sapiens hominin, the place to see and be seen was Africa in what is today colloquially known as the Cradle of Humankind. True to form, we're late to the party, but come along with us anyway for a tour of the cave sites that revolutionized paleoanthropology.\nThank you to everyone who came out to the live show!\nLinks\n\nWhen Did Homo Sapiens First Appear? (Discover)\n\nOldest Homo sapiens bones ever found shake foundations of the human story (The Guardian)\n\nScientists discover the oldest Homo sapiens fossils at Jebel Irhoud, Morocco (Phys.org)\n\nCaves of Hercules (Atlas Obscura)\n\nThe Caves of Hercules \u2013 The Map of Africa (Barclays Travel)\n\nSkull Fossils in Cave Show Mix of Human Relatives Roamed South Africa (The New York Times)\n\nContemporaneity of Australopithecus, Paranthropus, and early Homo erectus in South Africa (Science)\n\nNewly discovered fossil documents small-scale evolutionary changes in an extinct human species (Washington University in St. Louis)\n\n\u2018Little Foot\u2019 hominin emerges from stone after millions of years (Nature)\n\nWorld\u2019s oldest camp bedding found in South African cave (Science)\n\nFire and grass-bedding construction 200 thousand years ago at Border Cave, South Africa (Science)\n\n200,000 years ago, humans preferred to kip cozy (Science Daily)\n\nFirst Use of Poison (Archaeology)\n\nWhen the Sea Saved Humanity (Scientific American)\n\nEarly Tools Were Born From Fire (Science)\n\nAncient hominins used fire to make stone tools (Phys.org)\n\nSouth Africa\u2019s Blombos cave is home to the earliest drawing by a human (The Convo)\n\nContact\nEmail the Dirt Podcast: thedirtpodcast@gmail.com\nAffiliates\n\nWildnote\n\nTeePublic\n\nTimeular","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300,"thumbnail_url":"https://artwork.captivate.fm/dddd1215-eeb0-4139-b885-732091a9088a/uploads-2f1612927465714-puvwh93kw2-3b3c967815ee02703f7cfe1c7eed.jpg"}