Hominin History
Welcome to Hominin History, your definitive guide to the epic story of human origins. We journey millions of years into the past to uncover the real story of our ancestors—a tale of survival, innovation, and evolution more complex and fascinating than you've ever imagined. Subscribe to journey back to a time of Ice Age predators, megafauna hunts, and the dawn of human consciousness. This is the story of you. This is the human origin story, told with the depth it deserves .
The First Structures: Göbekli Tepe and the 11,000-Year-Old Temple
The Final Encounter: Did Modern Humans and Neanderthals Witness a Geomagnetic Pole Reversal?
The Ghost Population: The Unknown African Ancestor in Our DNA
The Oldest Bread in the World: Did Hunter-Gatherers Bake 14,000 Years Ago?
The Peopling of Australia: The 65,000-Year-Old Ocean Voyage
The Birth of Abstract Art: The 65,000-Year-Old Neanderthal Cave Paintings
The Denisovan Jaw of Xiahe: How a Fossil Monk Changed Human History
The Great Flood: Did a Real Catastrophic Event Inspire Ancient Myths?
Ice Age Dentistry: The 14,000-Year-Old Tooth Filling
The San People of Southern Africa: A Window into Our Deepest Past
The First Potters: How Clay Pots Changed the Way We Eat
The Sima de los Huesos: The 430,000-Year-Old Pit of Bones
The Green Sahara: The Lost World Our Ancestors Called Home
The Oldest Map in the World? The 14,000-Year-Old Engraving of a Village
The Genetic War: How Neanderthal DNA Is Still Affecting Your Health Today
The Dragon Man: The 146,000-Year-Old Skull That Could Be a New Human Species
The Human-Wolf Alliance: How Did Dogs Become Our Best Friends?
The African Multiregionalism Hypothesis: Were We All One Interconnected Species?
Did We Eat the Neanderthals? The Case for Prehistoric Cannibalism
The Red Lady of El Mirón: A 19,000-Year-Old Ritual Burial
The Poison Arrow: The 70,000-Year-Old Chemical Warfare of the Stone Age
The First Americans: How Humans Conquered a New Continent
The Invention of the Needle: How Sewing Conquered the Ice Age
The First Hybrid: The Child of a Neanderthal Mother and a Denisovan Father
The Venus Figurines: Ice Age Art or Prehistoric Pornography?
How to Build a Stone Age House: The 400,000-Year-Old Shelter
The Old Man of La Chapelle: How One Fossil Created the "Caveman" Myth
The Birth of Music: The 40,000-Year-Old Flutes Carved from Bone and Ivory
The Last Stand of the Neanderthals: A 29,000-Year-Old Cold Case
Who Made the First Stone Tools? (The Answer Isn't What You Think)