Stone blades from the Neolithic Era, stone arrowheads from the Bronze Age, stainless steel spoons, hwatu gambling cards and even blue jeans worn by people today. These are all part of the resources ...

Join us for this talk by Jan Lucassen who will discuss his new book, The Story of Work. We work because we have to, but also because we like it: from hunting-gathering more than 700,000 years ago to ...

I recently finished listening to the CD version of Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by the historian Yuval Noah Harari, and beautifully narrated by Derek Perkins. Sapiens is a wonderful book that ...

*Originally published on Sept. 10, 2024. Somewhere in the grasslands of the Eurasian Steppe, more than 5,500 years ago, a young hunter was the first person to ride a horse. Historian Timothy Winegard ...

If there is one belief that has united the left and the right, psychologists and philosophers, ancient thinkers and modern ones, it is the tacit assumption that humans are bad. It's a notion that ...

You know this book is going to be a challenging read – not just from the physical heft of it – when the introduction declares the author’s intention to look at how earth the planet has changed “since ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. Some 70,000 years ago, it’s thought, there were at least six species of humans yet only one survived ...

All the Latest Game Footage and Images from Humankind: Cultures of Africa Expand your Humankind experience with the Cultures of Africa DLC! Experience thousands of years of rich history from the world ...