Connecting local communities to paleoanthropology in Kenya
On Rusinga Island, a grassroots group is celebrating the field assistants who helped find famous fossils and inspiring future generations to study science.
The vanishing traces of our earliest ancestors in Indonesia
Leakey Foundation grantee Julien Louys journeys through Indonesia’s Riau Archipelago in search of Homo erectus, but uncovers how environmental devastation has erased much of the region’s history.
Field Notes: My Time with Titis
What is it like to study titi monkeys in the Amazon Rainforest? Leakey Foundation grantee David Wood says the worst part is the sweat bees.
I was part of the team that found the Homo naledi child’s skull: how we did it
An international team of researchers, led by Professor Lee Berger, a palaeoanthropologist from South Africa’s University of the Witwatersrand, has revealed the first partial skull of a Homo naledi child from the Rising Star cave.
How early humans used fire to permanently change the Stone Age landscape
An interdisciplinary group of researchers have shown how early humans used fire to shape the environments to suit their needs. In doing so, they transformed the landscape around them in ways still visible today.