The challenge of studying human cognitive evolution is identifying unique features of our
intelligence while explaining the processes by which they arose. Comparisons with�…

Humans have evolved culturally and perhaps genetically to be unsustainable. We exhibit a
deep and consistent pattern of short-term resource exploitation behaviours and institutions�…

The Archaeology of Human Bones provides an up to date account of the analysis of human
skeletal remains from archaeological sites, introducing students to the anatomy of bones�…

The behavioral origins of Homo sapiens can be traced back to the first material culture
produced by our species in Africa, the Middle Stone Age (MSA). Beyond this broad�…

Control of fire is one of the most important technological innovations within the evolution of
humankind. The archaeological signal of fire use becomes very visible from around 400,000�…

Straight-tusked elephants (Palaeoloxodon antiquus) were the largest terrestrial mammals of
the Pleistocene, present in Eurasian landscapes between 800,000 and 100,000 years ago�…

Hybridization between humans and Neanderthals has resulted in a low level of Neanderthal
ancestry scattered across the genomes of many modern-day humans. After hybridization, on�…

It has been proposed that climate change and the arrival of modern humans in Europe
affected the disappearance of Neanderthals due to their impact on trophic resources;�…

The past 200,000 years of human cultural evolution have witnessed the persistent
establishment of behaviors involving innovation, planning depth, and abstract and symbolic�…

Neanderthals hunted and butchered straight-tusked elephants, the largest terrestrial
mammals of the Pleistocene, in a lake landscape on the North European plain, 125,000�…