Sublime

Right now, scientists are excavating a Homo erectus village, about 750,000 years old, in Gesher Benot Ya'aqov in modern-day Israel. And we find that this village is organized hierarchically

At Wetwang Slack, careful digging and dating allowed the sequence of burials in the cemetery to be disentangled. Clusters formed around primary interments – typically, an older woman buried with beads would be the ‘founder figure’ – her grave forming a focus for subsequent burials of more women, with or without beads. Those gendered clusters also m

As David Graeber and David Wengrow showed us in their book The Dawn of Everything (2021), being an isolated individual is not the norm for human beings; it’s an extraordinary and costly achievement, and a phenomenon tied to particular social conditions.