How a handful of prehistoric geniuses launched humanity’s technological revolution

Nicholas R. Longrich, University of Bath For the first few million years of human evolution, technologies changed slowly. Some three million years ago, our ancestors were making chipped stone flakes and crude choppers. Two million years ago, hand-axes. A million … Continue reading How a handful of prehistoric geniuses launched humanity’s technological revolution

How a handful of prehistoric geniuses launched humanity’s technological revolution

Nicholas R. Longrich, University of Bath For the first few million years of human evolution, technologies changed slowly. Some three million years ago, our ancestors were making chipped stone flakes and crude choppers. Two million years ago, hand-axes. A million … Continue reading How a handful of prehistoric geniuses launched humanity’s technological revolution

Hideouts, harbours, and homes: how Vikings may have owed their success to their encampments

Christian Cooijmans, University of Liverpool For many years, archaeologists and historians have provided an increasingly informed insight into the dynamic world of the vikings, chipping away at the clichés of a crazed, capricious people preoccupied with beards and bloodshed. One … Continue reading Hideouts, harbours, and homes: how Vikings may have owed their success to their encampments