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Underwater Caves Provide New Insights Into Sicily's Earliest Human Inhabitants

Anthropology.net

Recent archaeological studies in Sicily reveal crucial information about early human migration into the Mediterranean islands. This research offers fresh perspectives on the expansion routes and adaptive behaviors of early human communities. It allows us to reconsider routes of migration of these earliest modern human ancestors.”

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OPINION: Studying humanities can prepare the next generation of social justice leaders

The Hechinger Report

Humanities professors across the country have ceaselessly lamented the precipitous decline in undergraduate humanities majors in recent years. During the decade following the Great Recession of 2008, the number of humanities bachelor’s degree recipients fell by a whopping 14 percent — from a peak of about 236,000.

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Learning From Snapshots of Lost Fossils

Sapiens

In museum archives, researchers found photos of remains from Paleolithic children who had belonged to a group of early Homo sapiens in Eurasia. Please note that this article includes images of human remains. Their remains and the artifacts found with them shed light on this major turning point in human evolution.

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