In 2013 a linguistic research team published a ground-breaking paper in which they claimed to have identified a set of words that are so ancient they are shared across many languages. You can read the academic paper describing their hypothesis ….
As the American political landscape becomes more muddied and confused one indisputable fact has been overlooked by the US media in this week’s brouhaha over Donald Trump’s bizarre Second Amendment speech: if a Democratic President appoints more left-leaning Supreme Court ….
New research from several fields of study may finally have pinpointed the main reasons for why you and I are Homo sapiens and not Homo denisova or Homo neanderthalensis. We now know that modern humans in populations outside of Africa ….
The Tollense Bronze Age Battle Over three thousand years ago small bands of warriors came together and traveled a great distance to lay siege to an enemy fortress. Their deeds have been remembered by poets and novelists. The Achaeans were ….
Scientists have been arguing for over a decade about the validity of comparing climate changes in the current geological period (the Holocene-Anthropocene epochs) with climate changes in the Eemian epoch, which lasted from about 130,000 years ago to about 115,000 ….
Both the armchair and professional historian can only be frustrated by the picture of the Internet that Google displays in its search results. For a recent project I wanted to compile a list of Websites that share family histories. Google, ….
We define culture as the collection of beliefs and behaviors that distinguish between one group and others. This includes language, music, literature, technology, architecture, and clothing in the 21st century but tens of thousands of years ago “modern” human cultures ….
Somewhere around 69-77,000 years ago a supervolcano centered on what is now Lake Toba in northern Sumatra, Indonesia (just to the south of Thailand in Southeast Asia) exploded, clouding the Earth with a large amount of volcanic ash. We call ….