TimmyHOur Past Within Us
January 6th 2009 22:18
The new field known as archeogenetics is illuminating prehistory.
How did we become the thinking animals that we are? That's the question at the heart of the study of human prehistory--and the one that Colin Renfrew has been asking since the summer of 1962, when he travelled to Milos, one of the Cycladic Islands in the Aegean Sea, a source of the black obsidian that was the earliest commodity traded by humans.
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Mystery man: Cro-Magnons emerged about 40,000 years ago and were very similar to us. So why did it take tens of thousands of years for civilization to take hold? Credit: Bettmann/Corbis
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