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the natural history of humanity.
explore Our place on this planet: our deep past, links to the present, and a more sustainable future.
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Humanity & History


Humanity has taken many forms.
Explore our evolution, movements across Earth and how humanity changed the world.
Health, diet and disease discovered through bones, stones and genes. And the anthropology of culture, hunting, farming and art.
 
The past is more than just ruins.  
Archaeology, zooarchaeology, geoarchaeology through time.
The material record tells us where innovation began and how humans shaped their landscape.

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EVOLUTION & Environment

All life on Earth came from somewhere, but where?
How did we go from Primates to Hominins?

The past environment has seen extremes. 
It shaped our evolution, 
our diet, our culture and civilisations. 
How will it impact us today?

 

Our articles are categorised by the following topics:

Archaeology, Anthropology, Evolution, Environment​

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Hieroglyphics

The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there.

L.P. Hartley 

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