This piece is my critical response to the article Toba Super Eruption: More bang than an apocalyptic ash cloud? By Shaun Smillie The original article appeared on the Daily Maverick, a South African n…
Ancestors of East Asians had Sexual Encounters with Two Distinct Denisovan Populations During Early Migrations Which Populated Asia. Sex always sells in the media; perhaps then it should come as no su…
A Global Aboriginal Australian Culture? The Proof at Göbekli Tepe (Originally published in New Dawn Magazine, July 2017) By BRUCE FENTON Scientists and independent researchers have publicly …
On the 5th of September (2017) an article published in The Hindu rekindled debate over a question that has caused controversy in the past, the piece was titled Who were the first settlers of India? Th…
We have all heard stories about mysterious men (and it is nearly always men) that wandered around the world gifting a new culture to those they met. Some stories have it that there was just one man, o…
Sumerian handbags, Olmec handbags, Maori handbags, Egyptian handbags, Indian handbags and handbags at Gobekli Tepe, in rock art from the Americas and Australia. Members of the archaeological research …
In September of 2016 Professor Eske Willerslev, Cambridge University, published a paper in Nature which revealed that his team had detected traces of an unknown human species in the genome of Original…
Despite the discovery of a 49,000-year-old human habitation site in the northern Flinders Ranges, replete with some of the oldest bone tools known on Earth, and the additional recovery of the oldest k…
Between 3 – 2 million years ago there lived a range of early human forms. At present, there are as many as a dozen or so named hominin species positioned in this time-frame. New evidence calls into …
Humans are thought to have diverged from primates 7 million years ago. Let’s look at the best candidates for our earliest ancestors. Questions remain as to whether these were early humans or just ex…
