Identifying the factors that likely enabled humanity’s first attempts at farming
For as influential and beneficial as agriculture has been for the human race, we’re not actually sure why we started farming in the first place.
For as influential and beneficial as agriculture has been for the human race, we’re not actually sure why we started farming in the first place.
Hopefully you’re not eating as you read this.
Humans have apparently domesticated so many animals that we can barely keep track of our activity.
When the cave of Altamira was first discovered in Spain in 1880, it sparked a controversy over the capabilities of primitive humans.
It turns out the easiest way to map an ancient Mayan city is by blasting the jungle with lasers.
You’ve probably never tried it at home, but distilling zinc isn’t easy.
How much would you pay for a fruit that’s mostly rind, doesn’t taste good, and can make you vomit if you eat too much of it?
People usually prefer fresh produce, but Victorian era Europeans once spent enormous resources on getting seeds and plants that were at least 3,000 years old.
Humans have been burying our dead for tens of thousands of years.
Despite what housing prices in the San Francisco Bay area may suggest, most people have an understanding of how dangerous living on an earthquake fault-line can be.