Image source: Lartet, Édouard, and Henry Christy. Reliquiæ Aquitanicæ. London: Williams & Norgate, 1875, pl. B. 28.

Blade and Bone

The Discovery of Human Antiquity

Lecture Videos

March 29, 2012

“Cro-Magnon: How the Ice Age Gave Birth to the First Modern Humans”

Brian M. Fagan, Best-selling author and Professor Emeritus of Archaeology, University of California, Santa Barbara.


May 3, 2012

“Neanderthal Genome Project: New Insights into Human Evolution”

Richard Edward Green, Assistant Professor of Biomolecular Engineering, University of California-Santa Cruz.


May 10, 2012

“The Pleistocene Meets Middle Earth: The Significance of the Indonesian Hobbits in Human Evolution”

Matthew Tocheri, Paleoanthropologist at the Human Origins Program, Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History.