Article: Mystery human species emerges from Denisovan genome

Mystery human species emerges from Denisovan genome
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn24603-mystery-human-species-emerges-from-denisovan-genome.html

Could this new ancestral hominid species be Homo erectus or Homo heidelbergensis?

Article and Chart: Interbreeding Among Hominid Species

This chart summarizes nicely the emerging complexity of interbreeding among hominids.

Article: A Touch from the Ancients

This story describes an Austrian stone axe with the imprint of an ancient Homo erectus.  There is something about finding a fingerprint or hand imprint that makes archaeology suddenly so personal to me.