Photo: An early Neandertal life rendering
One of the earliest artist renderings of a Neanderthal (1887), published in a magazine called The Open Court, which was dedicated to the dialogue between rel...
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Photo: Sangiran Museum
The museum and research center at Sangiran, Indonesia is capped by a large copper conical roof. The surrounding countryside is the source of Early and Middle...
Photo: More petroglyphs in Hawaii Volcanoes National Park
These are more petroglyphs from Hawaii Volcanoes National Park, part of the Pu’u Loa group. During historic times, when a child was born, a small cupule woul...
Photo: Petroglyphs in Hawaii Volcanoes National Park
We were in Hawaii last month and visited Hawaii Volcanoes National Park. The park has an area with exceptional petroglyphs from early Hawaiians, accessible b...
Photo: Neandertal engraving in Gorham’s Cave
From my trip to Gibraltar last week for the 2015 Calpe Conference, a photo from deep within Gorham’s Cave of the famous engraving from Mousterian layers attr...
Photo: M2-M1-dm2
M2–M1–dm1.
Photo: Suture
Photo Credit: John Hawks CC-BY-NC-ND
Photo: Sunrise over the Omo River
Another beautiful view from last week’s travel in Ethiopia:
Photo: Setting planet over Rising Star
I’ve been posting Venus pictures the last couple of months as it rises in the evening sky. I swear I had no idea I’d be working on an excavation called “Risi...
Photo: Roman double helix
From the bathhouse of Caesarea, an interesting double helix motif. Though there are only two strands, every third pass is colored blue.
Photo: Amud Cave in the rain
I hiked to Amud Cave today with Clive Finlayson. It’s a short hike on a well-marked trail, up the Wadi Amud. The word means “pillar”, and you can see the dra...
Photo: Venus and Mount Carmel
Tonight I had the pleasure of attending the official event recognizing the creation of the “Sites of Human Evolution at Mount Carmel” UNESCO World Heritage S...
Photo: Mirror Lake twilight
Mirror Lake, Wisconsin, was living up to its name tonight with Venus low in the western sky:
Photo: Venus and me
I was in Willendorf, Austria, on Sunday getting a tour of the recent archaeological work there. It is the site where the classic “Venus of Willendorf” was fo...
Photo: Roe deer from the Sandwalk
I spent last Sunday at Down House, Darwin’s home outside London. I was the first one out on the Sandwalk that morning – I ran into the gardener on the way ou...
Photo: Sterkfontein
This morning I went on an awesome visit to Sterkfontein, guided through the subterranean parts of the excavations by site manager Dominic Stratford. What an ...
Photos: Drimolen in morning
This morning began early with a drive out to the Cradle of Humankind. Colin Menter and Andy Herries were really kind to allow us to visit their excavation at...
Photo: Dusk in the Cradle
Action-packed day today as I did some filming with Matt Sponheimer and a great team of scientists doing some field ecology in the Cradle nature reserve. The ...
Photo: Swartkrans looking out
I’m in South Africa this month doing some work, so I haven’t had time to post quite as often as usual. In the meantime, I will share a few photos as I go. Mo...