Re-Learning History - Articles

With new scientific methods being applied and new discoveries every day, what we call "history" is changing all the time. In these articles, Mike looks at some of our newer knowledge...

Re-Learning History - Discovery of 210,000 Year Old Human Skull in Greece Highlights Changing Timeline for Humankind’s Origins. What we now know about ancient human beings is very different than what most of us were taught in school? This isn’t because of ancient aliens or lost civilizations, or any other wildly speculative, theoretical imagining. It’s science — we’ve simply learned much more about our human origins in recent years. Since most of us aren’t in school anymore, we don’t always get the chance to learn the new stuff. And history? It’s always changing. There’s always something new to learn, even when the questions don’t change...

Our Emerging Ancestors — The Denisovans. - New Discoveries Reveal Details About Early Humans. Who are the Denisovans? A branch of humankind contemporary with our early Modern Human ancestors and the Neanderthals has gone from unknown to new sensation, with scientific and archaeological discoveries in the headlines each week. Breakthroughs in applied genetics and other new technologies are giving archaeologists futuristic tools for examining our distant past. They’re using them to learn as much as they can about these newly discovered ancient humans — and about ourselves — as we have discovered traces of Denisovan DNA within our own Modern Human genome...