climate change

Top 10 discoveries about ancient people from DNA in 2023

This year's highlights include ways of finding ancient relatives, how some phenotypes evolved in ancient people, and trace evidence from artifacts.

Dec 31, 2023 • John Hawks

Ancient apocalypses and limits of evidence

The archaeological and paleoclimate records usually lack the resolution to see how meteorites or volcanoes mattered to our ancestors.

Jul 30, 2023 • John Hawks

A palimpsest of artifacts on a glacial landscape

A look at work by Lars Pilø and coworkers who have collected artifacts from a melting Norway glacier.

Dec 20, 2020 • John Hawks

The so-called Toba bottleneck simply didn't happen

Prompted by a paper by Chad Yost and coworkers, I look at the persistent myth that humans were an endangered species only 74,000 years ago.

Feb 9, 2018 • John Hawks

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