Sep 28, 2017
The stories and songs of prehistoric people are lost. Their art and artifacts are all that remain of their culture.
The painted caves of Ice Age Europe are the world's most famous examples of prehistoric art. What does this art reveal about the people who made it? Why did they paint those images on cave walls? What do...
Sep 21, 2017
One of the big questions in the study of human evolution is the question of how our ancestors spread across the world.
Our species evolved in Africa and migrated around the world from there. Most people on earth today are mixed descendants of multiple migrations to different places.
Somewhere in almost everyone’s...
Sep 14, 2017
It's not every day you see a Facebook post that changes your life, but that's exactly what happened to Leakey Foundation grantee Alia Gurtov. Gurtov was checking her Facebook feed one morning and saw a post from paleoanthropologist Lee Berger. He was looking for archaeologists who were "...skinny and preferably small....
Sep 7, 2017