Humans likely harvested their first flames from wildfire. When they learned to make it themselves, it changed everything.

Millennia of human history have seen many years of scarcity, famine, plague, and war. A new wave of research by historians and scientists singles out one year, however, that was uniquely catastrophic, ...

For decades, a neat story about human origins has floated through textbooks and documentaries: modern humans emerged in East ...

An innovative technique used in a study of Neanderthal hearths—places where fires were created—has been described by researchers as a "major" development in archaeology, one that could help shed light ...

To most people, complex technologies separate modern humans from their ancestors who lived in the Stone Age thousands or hundreds of thousands of years ago. In today’s fast-changing world, older ...

Inside of one the historic Mission 66 buildings (the mid-century initiative to modernize national park facilities), the Zion Human History Museum houses a collection of rotating artifacts found in the ...

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I've been reading the Seamus Heaney translation of "Beowulf." As a young graduate student in English, I thought I might become a medievalist, so I took a course in Old English and read some of ...

In “The Dawn of Everything,” the anthropologist David Graeber and the archaeologist David Wengrow aim to rewrite the story of our shared past — and future. By Jennifer Schuessler One August night in ...

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