Investigations & syntheses
Long-form, documented and sourced articles connecting discoveries and telling the great transformations of humankind.
Found in 1976 in the Pas-de-Calais, two 175,000-year-old skulls make the Biache 'pre-Neanderthals' the oldest human fossils of northern France, at the hinge between Homo erectus and the Neanderthals.
Read more →At Qafzeh and Skhul, 100,000 years ago, Homo sapiens laid its dead in pits, with ochre and offerings. The origins of the funerary gesture and symbolic thought.
Read more →Far from the textbook brute: tools, art, burials, and 1 to 2% of their genome still in us. An inquiry into a humanity that vanished, yet lives on.
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