Deborah Barsky – Popular Archeology

Deborah Barsky is a writing fellow for the Human Bridges, a researcher at the Catalan Institute of Human Paleoecology and Social Evolution, and an associate professor at the Rovira i Virgili University in Tarragona, Spain, with the Open University of Catalonia (UOC). She is the author of Human Prehistory: Exploring the Past to Understand the Future (Cambridge University Press, 2022).

What Was It Like for Our Sapiens Ancestors to Meet and Mix With Cousin Species?

Between 50,000 and 35,000 years ago in Eurasia, the disappearance of hominin species or their biocultural assimilation with anatomically modern humans is one of the biggest questions in prehistory...

Wed, Mar 12, 2025

Digging Up the Roots of Human Culture

What led humans on the unique path of cultural development? And can we do anything useful with newly reconstructed histories of this process?

Mon, Dec 2, 2024

Keys to Building Human Bridges to the Past

Human technologies have continued to evolve exponentially since the end of the Paleolithic: today we are using them to learn more about the past.

Tue, Sep 10, 2024

Finding the Roots of Religion in Human Prehistory

In a world so profoundly transformed by science and technology, it seems reasonable to ask: Why do religions still exist?

Wed, Jul 3, 2024

How Prehistoric Humans Discovered Fire Making

Wed, May 29, 2024

Why Culture Is Not the Only Tool for Defining Homo sapiens in Relation to Other Hominins

We need a broad comparative lens to produce useful explanations and narratives of our origins across time.

Tue, Apr 16, 2024