Replica of the painting from the Chauvet-Pont-d’Arc Cave in southern France (Anthropos museum, Brno) By Dr....
Prehistory
Before written records, humanity left its history in landscapes, artifacts, bones, and inherited memory. Explore our origins and movements across the earth, the rise of settled life, and the communities that built worlds without writing.
Early humans seem to have recognised the dangers of inbreeding at least 34,000 years ago, and developed surprisingly sophisticated...
The skull of a Neandertal known as Shanidar 1 show signs of a blow to the head...
This diagram depicts part of the Late Neolithic farmhouse with the position of the postholes. Drawing: Archaeologist...
Jean-Jacques Hublin, MPI-EVA, Leipzig By Dr. Matthew Skinner / 06.07.2017 Senior Lecturer in Evolutionary Anthropology University of...
The stone flakes are flying, but what brain regions are firing? / Photo by Shelby S. Putt...
A project exploring the role of East Africa in the evolution of modern humans has amassed the...
Satellite image of California’s San Andreas fault, where two continental plates come together. NASA/GSFC/METI/ERSDAC/JAROS, and U.S./Japan ASTER...
Sunset on a Cretaceous River by Rhynn By Dr. Patrick Forber (photo) and Dr. Eric Griffith Forber...