What was life like for the Cro-Magnons, Europe’s first anatomically modern humans? Having harnessed the archaeological data, Brian Fagan then gathers us around the literary campfire to imagine life in the Ice Age…
Hominid New Species
New species of hominid have been discovered in South Africa and Siberia, adding to the story of the evolution of modern humans from our early primate ancestors. Potentially the most important for filling in the gaps in our understanding of human ancestry is the near complete skeleton of an adolescent boy, along with the partial [...]
Serra Da Capivara
The compelling rock art of north-eastern Brazil explored. But how might it redraft the story of early human migration
World’s Oldest Venus?
35,000 year old venus statue found at Swabian Jura, the earliest example of its kind by some 5,000 years
Lucy
November 3, 2008
Filed Under: Issue 32, Ethiopia, Great Discoveries
A snapshot of the Australopithecus afarensis, otherwise known as ‘Lucy’.
Ritual: Organised Activity Identified as World’s Oldest
Archaeologists discover evidence of ritual activity dating back 70,000 years in Kalahari cave
Spain, Early People
At the sites of Orce and Cueva Victoria in Spain, the story of the early hominid colonisation of Europe is being rewritten
Neanderthals, More Intelligent than Previously Thought
Re-examination of artefacts from sites in central France reveal that Neanderthals were more like modern humans than previously thought
France, The Grotte de Niaux
Prof. Tim Darvill and Yvette Staelens of Bournemouth University send a missive from the Grotte de Niaux, a cave bursting with Palaeolithic rock-art
The Nature of Palaeolithic Art
Animal bone reports can be dry stuff so it is good to see a spate of interesting books about the complex and always fascinating relations between humans and other animals. Dogs, horses and beavers have all featured in excellent recent publications but my choice is more general, R. Dale Guthrie’s The Nature of Palaeolithic Art. [...]
World’s Oldest-Known Jewellery
September 6, 2006
Filed Under: Issue 19, News, Middle East
New research indicates that self-adornment seems to be an archaic human trait
Early Genetic Diversity
DNA research of 100,000 year old Neanderthal suggests greater genetic diversity than previously thought
Oldest Foot Wear Date from the Neandertals?
Evidence for the earliest footwear known to man
Oldest American Footprints
Mexican footprints may hold the key to discovering the origins of human populations in the Americas
South-Western Germany, Masculine Palaeolithic
Stone phallus discovered during excavations at Hohle Fels Cave, Swabian Jura, Germany
Dmanisi, Georgia
Palaeoanthropologists have uncovered hominid evidence in Georgia that pushes back the date our forebears left Africa
Flores Man
Debate surrounding Homo Floresiensis
South African Rock Art
May 7, 2004
Filed Under: Issue 5, Features, South Africa
Jeffrey May tries to understand the rock art of South Africa
Niah Cave, Sarawak, Borneo
The Niah Cave, in Sarawak (which is pronounced with the emphasis on the second syllable: sa-RA-wak), is one of the crucial sites for the antiquity of man in the Far east. It was excavated in the 1950s by the controversial figure of Tom Harrisson, who dug up the skull of a modern human being which he claimed to be 40,000 years old. Was his claim true? Professor Graeme Barker has been leading an expedition to find out, and here is the full story of what he has found: is Tom Harrisson justified?
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