History


Tom Higham

 

I use scientific dating methods to explore when and where Neanderthals disappeared from the world and what role modern humans like us had in that process.
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Sami Miaari

 

The economic causes and consequences of conflict
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Sabina Fiolna

 

I’m reading about dwarf mammoths in Siberia and 2000-year-old mud from lake bottoms in Turkey to say if people exercised naked and ate bananas.
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Rohan Kapitany

 

I’m trying to figure out how ideas move between heads, and how that changes our behaviour and why rituals are so important to people.
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Ophélie Lebrasseur

 

I am an archaeologist who tries to answer questions about our past. To do so, I use DNA (the blueprint of all living things) of old animal bones to understand how they first travelled across Europe.[Click through to read full profile]


Joel Butler

 

I look at how men in tights and men in turbans made deals between England and the Ottomans (sort of Turks) in the Tudor times.
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