The Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) was the most recent time in Earth’s history when the ice sheets were at their greatest extent, with the decline starting somewhere around 15,000-14,000 years ago. At the ...

The Anthropology Department at The Field Museum has traditionally focused primarily on Archaeology. As a result, research into human evolution (Biological Anthropology including Palaeoanthropology) ...

Our very distant ancestors are often portrayed as nothing more than hunters - toughened survivors in a primitive and crude world. But the truth is far from this - they were skilled hunters, sure, but ...