A construction project in Manchester, England, has revealed several shops and residences from “Angel Meadow,” a notorious nineteenth-century slum. “It was such a hideous, wet, horrible place to live, but it was these people who powered the Industrial Revolution in Manchester,” said site director Chris Wild. The economic crisis in Greece has forced the culture ministry to […]

Mimi Lam of the University of British Columbia thinks that Acheulean hand axes, which had a standard shape, may have been an exchangeable commodity among early humans. A new book by Dennis Stanford of the Smithsonian Institution and Bruce Bradley of the University of Exeter has people talking about the peopling of the Americas.  Could […]