How Prehistoric Humans Discovered Fire Making
Of all the pivotal technologies discovered by humans, fire making was the one that gifted our species with power beyond all others. An ancient Greek myth tells the story of Prometheus,…
Deborah Barsky
Why Culture Is Not the Only Tool for Defining Homo sapiens in Relation to Other Hominins
We need a broad comparative lens to produce useful explanations and narratives of our origins across time. While the circumstances that led to the emergence of anatomically modern humans (AMH)…
Discarding Old Theories on the Path to Finding the First Humans Outside Africa
Spectacular archeological finds reveal the true past of the first Europeans. When I began studying human prehistory in the mid-1990s, little did I know that I would witness a paradigm…
How Long Has Humanity Been at War With Itself?
Is large-scale intra-specific warfare Homo sapiens’ condition or can our species strive to achieve global peace? The famous American astronomer Carl Sagan once said, “You have to know the past to understand…
How Can We Understand the Passage of Time?
by Deborah Barsky and Jan Ritch-Frel Recent developments in the study of human prehistory hold clues about our times, our world, and ourselves. We can all agree that most people want to…
The Ancient Patterns of Migration
We live in an era of mass migration. According to the United Nations’ World Migration Report 2022, there were 281 million international migrants in 2020, equaling 3.6 percent of the global…
What Was Humanity’s First Cultural Revolution?
We live in a fast-moving, technology-dominated era. Happiness is fleeting, and everything is replaceable or disposable. It is understandable that people are drawn to a utopian vision. Many find refuge…
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