One of the major issues in palaeoanthropology and archaeology is when our hominin ancestors became like us. Humans living today have developed the capacity for ‘modern behavior'. Modern behavior can ...

The Châtelperronian is a Neandertal-associated archeological culture featuring ornaments and decorated bone tools. It is often suggested that such symbolic items do not imply that Neandertals had ...

A major goal of research on national development and underdevelopment is to specify and empirically test propositions drawn from theories emphasizing individual, societal, or international ...

"Behavioral modernity” is the phrase some evolutionary theorists use to refer to the point in time at which our ancestors developed all of the traits that make humans utterly unique relative to other ...

A key to understanding behavioral modernity The team of researchers is hopeful that the study will inspire new discussions on the multifunctionality of ochre and its integration into both the symbolic ...

This article was originally published on The Conversation. Read the original article. What makes us human? A lot of people would argue it is the ability of our species to engage in complex behavior ...

"Behavioral modernity” is the phrase some evolutionary theorists use to refer to the point in time at which our ancestors developed all of the traits that make humans utterly unique relative to other ...

Ancient artifacts such as stone tools and fossils, including ancient human skulls and teeth, provide crucial information for understanding the origins of modern humans. The archaeological record ...

"And a conviction is growing among some archaeologists that there was no sweeping transformation to “behavioral modernity” in our species’ recent past." Heh? I've been in anthropology for forty years, ...

— -- Cram enough monkeys and typewriters into a room, goes the argument, and eventually you'll get Shakespeare's sonnets. But if you crammed enough prehistoric humans together, would you ...

"We now know that ochre was a multi-use tool that played an essential role in the daily lives of early modern humans. I believe this discovery could change how we view ochre and the past, and deepen ...