The Pleistocene was more interesting than we think
Late Pleistocene/Early Holocene sites in the montane forests of New Guinea yield early record of cassowary hunting and egg harvesting: Eggshell is an understudied archaeological material with potential to clarify […]
Echoes of Europe’s Pleistocene Past
Lascaux Cave, 17,000-year-old Magdalenian “paintings”40,000 years ago the first modern humans arrived in Europe. They were the scions of a great scattering of Africans. One branch of the “Out of Africa” migration, from which the vast majority of the an…
The Ghosts of the European Pleistocene
2011’s Cave of Forgotten Dreams was a strange film. I went to watch it in the theaters mostly to see the paintings of Pleistocene peoples in an immersive manner, but the director and narrator, Werner Herzog, used the film as an instrument to forward his thesis that humanity as we understand it emerged during this […]
Ending the Ice Ages
We Are All Panamanians: When the Isthmus of Panama rose from the sea, it may have changed the climate of Africa–and encouraged the evolution of humans. The emergence of the Isthmus of Panama has been credited with many milestones in Earth’s history. When it rose from the sea some 3 million years ago, the isthmus […]