29. Sahulian Terminal Pleistocene [Preview]

45,000 to 30,000 years ago ... Signs of Late Stone Age culture start appearing across sub-saharan Africa, hinting at long-distance contact between once isolated peoples.Support the show 

60,000 to 45,000 years ago ... Signs of cultural change started to appear among hunter gatherers in Africa, leading to the end of the Middle Stone Age, a period that had lasted hundreds of thousands of years.Support the show 

Homo longi, also known as Dragon Man, is an extinct archaic human species - with a nearly complete skull found near Harbin, China, dating back to at least 146,000 years ago. Discovered in 1933 during the construction of the Dongjiang Bridge, it remained hidden until 2018 due t ...

Historian Yuval Noah Harari wrote a book back in 2015 that looked at the entirety of human history; from hunter-gatherers to space exploration. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind packs all of this into a mere 400 pages. Harari noted to NPR's Arun Rath that humans have done a g ...  Show more

They were alive from around 5 million to 2 million years ago, slowly evolving in East Africa and trying to become human. 

Rediffusion La date de l'arrivée des premiers hommes en Australie, et la manière dont ils y sont parvenus, sont, depuis longtemps, l'objet de nombreux débats entre les spécialistes.De nouvelles découvertes, sur le site préhistorique de Madjedbebe, au nord du pays, permettent de r ...  Show more