The deeper we explore humanity’s past, the harder it becomes to sustain some of the most powerful political myths of the ...
Check out more from this issue and find your next story to read. In The Invention of Prehistory: Empire, Violence, and Our Obsession With Human Origins, the intellectual historian Stefanos Geroulanos, ...
(Kamila Kozioł/iStock/Getty Images Plus) When it comes to phenomena that may have changed the course of human history, fire ...
Scientists studied the remains of a mysterious human relative called Homo naledi found deep in a South African cave and ...
A collection of 3-million-year-old bones unearthed 50 years ago in Ethiopia changed our understanding of human origins. Fifty years ago, our understanding of human origins began to change with the ...
A 1894 discovery on Java's Solo River, initially dubbed Java Man, has reshaped our understanding of early human origins.
In the summer of 1856, laborers at a limestone quarry near Düsseldorf were clearing mud and chert out of a cave when they turned up a fossilized skull. It was long and elliptical, with wide sinuses ...
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