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41,000 Years Ago, Earth’s Magnetic Field Collapsed —And Humanity Was Never the Same Again

A recent study published inScience Advances reveals that a temporary collapse of Earth’s magnetic field, known as the Laschamps Excursion, had profound effects on early humans. Drawing from ...
Newsday

A 100,000-year-old burial site in Israel is changing what we know about early humans

SHOHAM, Israel — Archaeologists believe they have found one of the oldest burial sites in the world at a cave in Israel, where the well-preserved remains of early humans dating back some 100,000 years ...
Phys.org

Stone age BBQ: How early humans may have preserved meat with fire

Did prehistoric humans know that smoking meat could preserve it and extend its shelf life? Researchers from the Alkow Department of Archaeology and Ancient Near Eastern Cultures at Tel Aviv University ...
NPR

Fire-making materials at 400,000-year-old site are the oldest evidence of humans making fire

It's easy to take for granted that with the flick of a lighter or the turn of a furnace knob, modern humans can conjure flames — cooking food, lighting candles or warming homes. For much of our ...

New Research Shows How the Earliest Humans Got Their Meat

But for earlier humans, meat consumption appeared to be a critical, yet somewhat poorly understood, contributor to ...