For most of the 20th century, it was thought that our closely related ancestors of Eurasia, including the Neanderthals, were not able to express symbolic behaviours comparable to us, Homo…
Natural born killers: is warfare in our bones?
Skeletal remains of a group of hunter-gatherers massacred around 10,000 years ago are raising questions about humankind’s propensity for warfare. The fossilised bones of the Stone Age victims were unearthed…
Changing our thinking on early human migrations
Stone tools discovered on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi and dating to at least 118,000 years ago suggest early humans colonised the island much earlier than previously thought. Professor Rainer…