About 5,600 years ago, a 20-year-old woman was buried with a tiny baby resting on her chest, a sad clue that she likely died in childbirth during the Neolithic. This woman and six other ancient ...

The name Cro-Magnon originated with early modern human remains discovered in France in 1868, but it later became deeply entangled with racial anthropology and eugenics. Early researchers promoted ...