Could Mammoth Bones Reveal When Humans First Arrived in North America?
Paleontologist Dan Fisher is challenging scientific consensus about when people first came to the continent and how they may have changed the world around them.
Could Mammoth Bones Reveal When Humans First Arrived in North America?
Paleolithic
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What One Tooth Means for Neanderthal History
A 100,000-year-old tooth found in the Pešturina Cave in Eastern Serbia bolsters evidence of Neanderthal presence in the Balkans.
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Would Our Early Ancestors Have Watched the Super Bowl?
There is an evolutionary reason why humans enjoy sitting around watching a fire, river, or television screen.
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Visitor Log Chronicled for the Denisovan Family Home
New studies write the history of a famous Siberian cave and unearth the oldest jewelry in the region.
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Sewing Needles Reveal the Roots of Fashion
Humans have crafted garments for more than 40,000 years—and prehistoric tools suggest that warmth wasn’t their only concern.
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Who Decided It Was Bad to Be Fat?
Westerners have long shunned obese people, and this attitude now pervades much of the globe. Was this always the case?