Ostrich beads mark the ebb and flow of migration
A self-funded researcher’s work on ostrich beads shows how a flooded river basin cut ties between African communities for 40,000 years
Apocalypse then
A space rock demolished an ancient Middle Eastern city – possibly inspiring the Biblical story of Sodom
A trove of buried human history
Among the remains found at Sunghir, where funeral rituals ranged from the ornate to the desultory, the dead with physical deformities got extravagant treatment Lea Surugue | SAPIENS Around 34,000…
How we know that Neanderthals were artists
Two researchers explain how they concluded that Neanderthals were not all that different from the modern humans who replaced them Chris Standish, University of Southampton and Alistair Pike, University of…
Every ring tells a story
The past comes clothed in rich detail, thanks to tree ring comparisons, archaeological evidence, oral traditions, linguistics, genetics, and other data Stephen E. Nash In the fall of 1282, a…