50th Anniversary Gala Portraits
The Leakey Foundation "Discovering Us" 50th Anniversary Gala included a portrait studio that captured elegant photos of our party guests. Please scroll through the gallery and share your photos on social media!
The Origins of Us
The question of where we humans come from is one many people ask, and the answer is getting more complicated as new evidence is emerging all the time.
Ancient Music and the Cognitive Revolution
Photo: Jensen/University of Tubingen
How and when did music begin? How does the discovery of 40,000-year-old bone flutes impact our understanding of music within the cognitive revolution? This one-hour session will focus on these important questions through a discussion of the discovery and context of Paleolithic bone flutes found in 2008 at Hohle Fels, a cave in southern Germany.
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Fossil Finders: Kamoya Kimeu
Most paleontologists track their careers in terms of funding and expedition cycles, searching for fossils in finite windows of time and often spending months, even years waiting to return to promising sites. It is rare that someone is able to devote his or her life to searching for fossils, yet one man has done exactly that. That man is Kamoya Kimeu.
New Discovery Updates the Story of Early Human Migration
Researchers conducting archaeological fieldwork in the Nefud Desert of Saudi Arabia have discovered a fossilized finger bone of an early member of our species, Homo sapiens. The discovery is the oldest directly dated Homo sapiens fossil outside of Africa and the immediately adjacent Levant, and indicates that early dispersals into Eurasia were more expansive than previously thought.