Humanity’s First Global Ancestor
THE UPDATE: Decades of fossil discoveries have illuminated our understanding of a deep-time human ancestral species that persisted and spread across the globe well more than one million years...
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...
First burials: Neanderthal and Homo sapiens interactions in the Mid-Middle Palaeolithic Levant
The first-ever published research on Tinshemet Cave reveals that Neanderthals and Homo sapiens in the mid-Middle Paleolithic Levant not only coexisted but actively interacted, sharing technology, lifestyles, and burial...
Advanced radiocarbon dating pins down the chronology of the Lapedo Child
Part modern human, part Neanderthal, this child is now dated to about 28,000 years ago.
How Mesopotamia’s Urban and Industrial Revolution Started Politics as We Know It Today
Giorgio Buccellati’s At the Origins of Politics takes readers to the early stages of a process that became the structure of modern life.
The first Bronze Age settlement in the Maghreb
UB researcher leads discovery of great significance for the history of Africa and the Mediterranean.
Vesuvian ash cloud turned brain to glass
A super-heated ash cloud from Vesuvius turned a Roman citizen's brain to glass in Herculaneum in 79 AD.
The inner ear of Neanderthals reveals clues about their enigmatic origin
New study challenges the theory that Neanderthals originated after an evolutionary event that implied the loss of part of their genetic diversity.
How We Distribute Power Will Influence Our Future
As we head into a future shaped by climate change, we must find ways to stabilize societies and reduce conflict. Solutions may lie in the archaeological record.
