Human Beginnings

The years of neglect, looting, vandalism, and lack of funding have damaged one of the earliest urban archaeological sites in South Asia.

Latest discoveries in Texas are seen as compelling evidence that the stone tool Clovis culture does not represent America's original immigrants.

A fossil human jawbone discovered in southern China is upsetting conventional notions of when our ancestors migrated out of Africa.

Tel Megiddo, an ancient Biblical city north of Jerusalem, has ruins of a palace and stables attributed to around the time of Solomon — evoked now by a metal horse sculpture.

The Maya peoples flourished in part because of clever farming techniques, including terracing, forest gardens, managed fallows, and wild harvesting.

Chemical analysis of bone samples show that ancient Nubians consumed large quantities of antibiotics produced naturally in the fermented gruel they drank.

"Africa is inferred to be the continent of origin for all modern human populations. But the details of human prehistory and evolution in Africa remain largely obscure."

Neanderthals
Scientists say that Neanderthals matured more rapidly than homo sapiens, living fast and dying young. By aging slower, humans had more time to organize socially and learn.

Scientists say that the first human societies may have stabilized in order to care for abnormally large babies.

Apart from superficial differences like skin colour and facial features, we are all genetically related.