HOUSTON — The search for the early history of Homo sapiens sapiens is endless. Bit by bit we add to the prehistoric picture of what went on before that first recorded eclipse in 4241 B.C. Even the ...
Not until the late 19th century did humans learn of the extraordinary art produced by their Ice Age ancestors, the Cro-Magnon people of Western Europe. These early artists decorated walls of caves ...
Indeed the Cro-Magnons were explorers, shamen and visionaries throughout the Ice Ages. The name Cro-Magnon was derived from anthropologist Louis Lartet's discovery in 1868 of a burial site of five ...
Deep in a tall and narrow cave at the top of a rocky hill in remote northern Spain, we crept, bent over, in the very space where shamans painted delicate images of cave bison and mammoths on limestone ...
Human evolution is complex and fascinating, but it is filled with various terms and names related to past humans and hominin ...
An exhibition in Paris juxtaposes tools, fossils and Cro-Magnon skulls with works of modern and contemporary art. By Jason Farago PARIS — It’s always wise to doubt those who praise an art exhibition ...
A 50,000-year record of mammals consumed by early humans in southwestern France indicates there was no major difference in the prey hunted by Neanderthal and Cro-Magnon, according to a new study. A 50 ...
The name Cro-Magnon, coined in 1868, was once used to describe early European humans. But science shows these were simply Homo sapiens, identical to us in anatomy. Misuse of the term fueled racial ...
I have long thought that when comes to sex humans were much more like bonobos than our other close evolutionary relative, regular chimps. Paleo-anthropological evidence for ancestral behaviors is ...
Not until the late 19th century did humans learn of the extraordinary art produced by their Ice Age ancestors, the Cro-Magnon people of Western Europe. These early artists decorated walls of caves ...
Russell has a PhD in the history of medicine, violence, and colonialism. His research has explored topics including ethics, science governance, and medical involvement in violent contexts. Russell has ...