Christian Ashford

For most of human history, our ancestors did not plant crops and take care of livestock. Instead, they scavenged, hunted, foraged, and gathered edible resources for millions of years. However, around 12,000 years ago, humans around the world began to shift to another lifestyle, one that would eventually lay down the foundation for modern civilization. … Read more

For approximately 2 million years, and the vast majority of human history, humans were hunter-gatherers. This means that rather than growing their food using farming and domestication techniques, they gathered edible plants and hunted meat from animals in the wild. However, about 12,000 to 10,000 years ago, something changed. The modern human species, Homo sapiens, … Read more

The modern human species, Homo sapiens, was not the only human alive around 50,000 years ago. Another human species that existed back then was the Denisovans. They are believed to have lived in Asia and Oceania, from 200,000 to 40,000 years ago. But, before they disappeared, scientists discovered that they may have met with Homo … Read more

Humans are one of the smartest creatures in the animal kingdom. We have become a truly intelligent species that dominates and rules the planet. We could shape our world to fit around us, instead of the other way around. However, it wasn’t always like this. 7 to 6 million years ago, our lineage was only … Read more

Several million years ago, there was evidence recorded that shows humans were not yet apex predators. They were vulnerable to bigger, stronger, and faster predators. It is also hard for them to hunt animals on their own, and they often rely on scavenging resources from other species’ hunt carcasses. Some of the earliest species of … Read more

Europe was once home to many hominins, but something happened around 1.1 million years ago. Suddenly, fossils and archaeological records disappeared, and since that time, it has been believed that there have been no human species for nearly 200,000 years, or at least no established population was present. Scientists predict that there was an extreme … Read more

The modern human species, Homo sapiens, originated in Africa and existed with many other hominins. One of these is Homo naledi, which was believed to have a small brain that is roughly the size of a chimpanzee, or older hominins like Australopithecus. However, what makes them even more fascinating is that they possess a mix … Read more

Most of the hominin fossils were found in Africa, which is also why it was labelled to be the likely origin of the homo genus species. However, humans did not stay on this continent. There were times when they were forced to migrate to other places, like Europe and Asia, in order to survive and … Read more

The modern human species existed around 300,000 years ago in Africa, but before us, there were already a lot of other hominins that lived and thrived on the continent. One of these homo species is Homo ergaster. They are an extinct archaic humans that were estimated to have lived around 1.9 million to 1.4 million … Read more

Long before the modern human species existed on this planet, there were already several other hominins that walked, survived, and went extinct. One of those species is Homo rudolfensis. They are a human relative who was believed to have lived on the lands in East Africa nearly 2 million years ago. However, they are also … Read more