Out of Africa, by Assumption
How Witzel, Berezkin, Le Quellec, and d’Huy turn human migrations into myth origins—and why a global story needs its own historical evidence.
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Contra d’Huy on the African Root of World Mythology
A global myth is not an African fossil. Why d’Huy’s roots beg the question, and Ice Age Europe offers a better home for the bullroarer complex.
Pre-sapient humans in America
Pre-sapient humans in America: the case for sparse, technologically simple hominin arrivals long before Clovis and the faint traces they might have left.
The Paleolithic Tech-Tree of the Americas (Sites, Tools, “Modes,” and Cultural Signals)
A site-by-site, table-heavy guide to Paleolithic technologies and cultural signals across North & South America, mapped to Old World lithic “modes” and traditions.
Recursive Eve: EToC Meets Suddendorf–Corballis on the Last 100,000 Years
EToC and Suddendorf–Corballis converge: human recursion and autonoetic time-travel coalesced over the last 100k years, leaving archaeological and mythic fingerprints.
Nüwa Theory of Consciousness: Mending the Heavens in the Ice Age
Exploring the hypothesis that the Chinese mother goddess Nüwa preserves a cultural memory of end-Ice Age floods and the dawn of self-aware human consciousness.
Upper Paleolithic Gender Imbalance In Human Depictions
New counts show that roughly four out of five Ice-Age human images are female, overturning ideas that "Venus" figurines were an isolated fertility cult.
Earliest Complex Tools of the Genus Homo
A comprehensive survey of the earliest complex tools made by early humans, from hafted axes and spears to bows, woodworking implements, and symbolic artifacts, examining archaeological evidence and …