- Professor of Environmental and Geographical Sciences, Bournemouth University
- Professor of Archaeology, University of Reading
How people got stuff around before wheels.
Las fechas de los primeros asentamientos en las Américas es un área de la arqueología enormemente controvertida.
The early settlement of the Americas is hugely contested area of archaeology.
A new study finds more than one early human species lived on the landscape in Northern Tanzania 3.66 million years ago. But there are reasons to be cautious about the findings.
Les découvertes du Nouveau-Mexique pourraient réécrire l’histoire de la migration humaine vers les Amériques.
The New Mexico findings could rewrite the history of human migration to the Americas.
Prehistoric hand and footprints analysed by a team of researchers are an early example of art.
Artificial intelligence could help police catch criminals – but we need human experts for the big cases.
Some 13,000 years ago, an adult carrying in a child walked 1.5km in mud at great speed in the presence of hungry predators.
Scientists have worked out a new way to scan beneath the ground for footprints – and it’s revealing traces of an ancient world.
Our attempt to bring dinosaurs to life via a smartphone app was met with excitement – then it hit a brick wall.
How we discovered ancient footprints of early human hunters and their megafauna prey.
Children in the distant past were put to work early, reveal footprints.
Latest development in ‘Crete feet’ find serves as a reminder of the challenges facing dig sites.
A new study can’t rule out the possibility that human ancestors lived on Crete at the same time as they evolved in Africa.
Avec humour, un sédimentologiste anglais mène l’enquête.
There is a direct correlation between the age of the builder, spade size and the speed at which boredom sets in.
Study shows that the availability of springs may have controlled human evolution.
How to solve mysteries with an accessible computer program.
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