[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":147},["ShallowReactive",2],{"article-upper-paleolithic-revolution-en":3},{"id":4,"name":5,"keywords":4,"slug":6,"author":7,"status":4,"defaultLang":4,"ogImage":8,"ogType":9,"updateDate":10,"createDate":11,"isDeleted":4,"availableLangs":4,"i18nMeta":12,"relatedBlogs":23},null,"旧石器晚期技术革命","upper-paleolithic-revolution","卜可","https://image.big-history.online/tree_24.40/1770276687125_720_1760335975390_Palm2.jpg","article","2026-03-12T12:56:04","2025-09-27T15:41:43",{"name":13,"h1Title":14,"title":15,"subtitle":4,"keywords":16,"content":17,"overview":4,"description":18,"ogTitle":19,"ogDescription":20,"preface":4,"note":4,"langCode":21,"updateDate":10,"createDate":11,"priority":22,"author":7},"Late Paleolithic Revolution","The Great Cultural Leap Forward in Prehistory: A Revolutionary Leap in Human Art and Cognition 50000 Years Ago","The Great Leap Forward of Prehistoric Culture | Human Art Revolution 50000 Years Aorina Cave Painting Culture Human Evolution","latePaleolithicrevolution,modernman,prehistory","## Prehistoric \"Great Cultural Leap Forward\"\n\nAccording to the current archaeological evidence (2025, the similar chronological markers appearing in the Great History Online, all of which are the writing years of the article), about 50000 years ago, our race experienced a very special thing: it was as if Athena in Greek mythology injected soul into mankind, **human beings \"suddenly\" had unprecedented figurative artistic creativity. It can be called a major watershed in the history of human evolution**.\n\n\u003Cdiv class=\"img-container-article\">\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://image.big-history.online/tree_24.25.26/1760335884466_A-wild-boar-and-three-hunters.png\" alt=\"A-wild-boar-and-three-hunters\" />\n\u003Cspan>\nImage source: \u003Ca href=\"https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c0vewjq4dxwo\" target=\"_blank\">BBC\u003C/a>\n\u003C/span>\nA prehistoric rock painting \u003Cp class=\"description\">found on \u003Cspan class=\"marker\" enus=\"Sulawesi Island\" lon=\"113.239\" lat=\"-7.1872\" map=\"HB\" zoom=\"4\">Sulawesi Island\u003C/span> (Sulawesi Island) in central \u003Cspan class=\"marker\" enus=\"Nicaea City\" lon=\"29.7211\" lat=\"40.4286\" map=\"HB\" zoom=\"4\">Nesia\u003C/span>, India, clearly distinguishes a wild boar and three hunters. The work is at least 51200 years old, more than 5000 years before (2024) the oldest known cave art.\n\u003C/p>\n\u003C/div>\n\nFrom the perspective of anatomy alone, there is no significant difference in the body structure of our ancestors before and after this event node. In other words, if you sample human individuals before the event, you will find that the average difference between these samples and today's human individuals does not exceed the internal differences between different contemporary populations.\n\nAlthough our bodies have not changed significantly from earlier times, there has been a \"revolution\" in the field of art,**some scholars have called it the\" Upper Paleolithic Revolution \"(Late Paleolithic Revolution) or the\" Great Cultural Leap Forward \"**. In the millions of years before the Great Leap Forward, there was almost no change in the artifacts, and most of the remaining stone tools and weapons were of fairly rough shape. According to the current archaeological record, human beings before the Great Leap Forward had almost no paintings, no carvings, no statues, no funerary objects, and no decorations. But 50000 years ago, a collection of abstract figurative works of art suddenly appeared, as if overnight.\n\n\u003Cdiv class=\"img-container-article\">\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://image.big-history.online/tree_24.25.26/1760335975390_Palm2.jpg\" alt=\"Palm\" />\n\u003Cspan>\nImage source: \u003Ca href=\"https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c0vewjq4dxwo\" target=\"_blank\">BBC\u003C/a>\n\u003C/span>\nThe palm pattern, discovered in \u003Cp class=\"description\">in the Sumpang Bita cave on \u003Cspan class=\"marker\" enus=\"Sulawesi Island\" lon=\"113.239\" lat=\"-7.1872\" map=\"HB\" zoom=\"4\">Sulawesi island\u003C/span> (Sulawesi), was once considered one of the oldest paintings in the world, dating back about 39000 years. Please pay attention to the looming animal patterns in the background, which obviously requires a high degree of abstract thinking and imagination to complete. The little hands in the pattern are obviously from children. Are they playing games with their mothers? When they are finished, do they stand hand in hand in front of the painting and smile at their paintings?\u003C/p>\n\u003C/div>\n\nHumans also exhibit many different traits. For example, holding a funeral full of symbolic meaning, or realizing abstract art forms such as painting and sculpture, and even making musical instruments such as bone flute. People also began to use pigments, gems and other materials to decorate themselves, and there was evidence of long-distance material exchange. The tools used by people are also more advanced and exquisite, such as the popularization of handle technology, fishing and hunting technology, innovation and invention of grinding instruments, and so on. Behind this series of changes, in addition to material and technological progress, we can obviously feel the cognitive and psychological leap of modern people.\n\nIt is no exaggeration that if an alien observer looks at our civilization in the depths of the universe, he should regard human pyramids, religions, computers, rockets, and artificial intelligence as the continuation and aftermath of this great cultural leap forward.\n\nSo, why did mankind suddenly \"begin to understand\" 50000 years ago and achieve such a sudden change in art and culture?\n\nThis issue is still the focus of debate in the scientific community. It may be that the language ability of modern people has undergone a key mutation, but it is still a hypothesis, and it is difficult to give a satisfactory answer for the time being. Great History Online will not discuss this in depth for the time being. Interested readers can refer to the relevant works of paleoanthropologists or consult the references in this article.\n\n\u003Cdiv class=\"img-container-article\">\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://image.big-history.online/tree_24.25.26/1760336055431_Upper_Paleolithic2.jpg\" alt=\"Upper_Paleolithic\" width=\"50%\"/>\n\u003Cspan>\nImage source: \u003Ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Upper_Paleolithic\" target=\"_blank\">wikipedia\u003C/a>\n\u003C/span>\n\u003Cp class=\"description\">belongs to the Ahmar (Ahmarian) culture of the flint knife, about 47000-40000 years ago. The Ahmar culture corresponds to the first phase of Homo sapiens's first out of Africa, with sites throughout the \u003Cspan class=\"marker\" enus=\"Levant\" lon=\"37.9785\" lat=\"34.0757\" map=\"HB\" zoom=\"4\">Levant\u003C/span>, including Syria, \u003Cspan class=\"marker\" enus=\"Lebanon\" lon=\"35.8637\" lat=\"33.8736\" map=\"HB\" zoom=\"4\">Lebanon\u003C/span>, the \u003Cspan class=\"marker\" enus=\"Israel\" lon=\"34.8516\" lat=\"31.0461\" map=\"HB\" zoom=\"4\">Israeli region\u003C/span>, Palestine and \u003Cspan class=\"marker\" enus=\"Jordan\" lon=\"36.2384\" lat=\"30.5852\" map=\"HB\" zoom=\"4\">Jordan\u003C/span>. It is in the Israel Museum.\u003C/p>\n\u003C/div>\n\n\u003Cdiv class=\"img-container-article\">\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://image.big-history.online/tree_24.25.26/1760336166511_Upper_Paleolithic32.jpg\" alt=\"Aurignacian\" width=\"50%\"/>\n\u003Cspan>\nImage source: \u003Ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Upper_Paleolithic\" target=\"_blank\">wikipedia\u003C/a>\n\u003C/span>\n\u003Cp class=\"description\">belongs to the bone flute of the Orina (Aurignacian) culture, a human musical instrument about 37000 years ago. The Oreina culture lasted about 43000 to 26000 years ago and was the earliest culture created by Homo sapiens in the European region. At that time, the so-called \"race\" characterized by skin color was far from appearing.\u003C/p>\n\u003C/div>\n\n\u003Cdiv class=\"img-container-article\">\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://image.big-history.online/tree_24.25.26/1760336264946_Aurignacian2.jpg\" alt=\"Aurignacian\" width=\"80%\"/>\n\u003Cspan>\nImage source: \u003Ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aurignacian\" target=\"_blank\">wikipedia\u003C/a>\n\u003C/span>\nPrehistoric frescoes \u003Cp class=\"description\">in the \u003Cspan class=\"marker\" enus=\"Grotte Chauvet\" lon=\"4.41406\" lat=\"44.3876\" map=\"HB\" zoom=\"6\">Grotte Cave\u003C/span> (Grotte Chauvet) in the province of \u003Cspan class=\"marker\" enus=\"Ardeche\" lon=\"3.81335\" lat=\"44.8149\" map=\"HB\" zoom=\"4\">Ardyce\u003C/span>, France, were once considered the earliest human cave paintings. The creation of these prehistoric works of art can be traced back to 37000 to 33500 years ago and belong to the Aorina culture.\u003C/p>\n\u003C/div>\n\n\u003Cdiv class=\"img-container-article\">\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://image.big-history.online/tree_24.25.26/1760336333328_Chauvet_Cave2.jpg\" alt=\"Chauvet_Cave\" width=\"80%\"/>\n\u003Cspan>\nImage source: \u003Ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chauvet_Cave\" target=\"_blank\">wikipedia\u003C/a>\n\u003C/span>\nA replica of a prehistoric mural in the \u003Cspan class=\"marker\" enus=\"Grotte Chauvet\" lon=\"4.41406\" lat=\"44.3876\" map=\"HB\" zoom=\"6\">Shawy Cave\u003C/span>,\u003Cp class=\"description\">. The large animals in the picture were very common in Europe at that time, but they disappeared later.\u003C/p>\n\u003C/div>\u003Cdiv class=\"img-container-article\">\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://image.big-history.online/tree_24.25.26/1760336436592_Upper_Paleolithic42.jpg\" alt=\"Upper_Paleolithic\" width=\"50%\"/>\n\u003Cspan>\nImage source: \u003Ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Upper_Paleolithic\" target=\"_blank\">wikipedia\u003C/a>\n\u003C/span>\nThe statue of the \"Lion Man\" found in the \u003Cspan class=\"marker\" enus=\"Hohlenstein-Stadel\" lon=\"10.1727\" lat=\"48.5493\" map=\"HB\" zoom=\"6\">Stade Cave\u003C/span> (Hohlenstein-Stadel) \u003Cp class=\"description\">in southern Germany is currently (2023) one of the oldest known sculptures in the world. The ancestors who created it lived about 40000 years ago. Cleverly carved on mammoth tusk, the statue is a blend of animal and human elements. Its animal characteristics are the lion's head, slender body and cat-like forelimbs. Its legs, feet and upright posture are clearly shaped in human form.\u003C/p>\n\u003C/div>\n\nHere again, the reader is reminded that * * the people who created these works of art had nothing to do with \"Europe\" in the geopolitical field today, when there was no concept such as \"white\" or \"yellow\" *; among modern people, the so-called \"geographical species\" marked by superficial features such as skin color or hair were far from being formed at that time. The early modern humans living in Europe at that time probably looked different from all modern people today.\n\nAt present, the earliest group of European ancestors can be traced from the \u003Cspan class=\"marker\" enus=\"Oase Cave\" lon=\"21.8333\" lat=\"45.0167\" map=\"HB\" zoom=\"6\">Oase Cave\u003C/span> in the southwest of \u003Cspan class=\"marker\" enus=\"Rumania\" lon=\"24.9668\" lat=\"45.9432\" map=\"HB\" zoom=\"4\">Romania\u003C/span>, where some of the earliest Mesolithic human remains in Europe (archaeologically, the transitional stage between the Paleolithic and the Neolithic) have been found, including a complete anterior skull, a basically complete left temporal bone and some fragments of frontal, parietal and occipital bones. These remains are from at least two human individuals, they were named \"Oase 1\" (about 40000 years ago) and \"Oase 2\" (about 41500-39500 years ago). Among them, Oase 1 is closer to Neanderthals, while Oase 2 is more closely related to the \u003Cspan class=\"marker\" enus=\"Yuantian Cave\" lon=\"116.407\" lat=\"39.9042\" map=\"HB\" zoom=\"6\">Pastoral Cave\u003C/span> people in Beijing who lived 40000 years ago. But both are genetically relatively distant from any modern population. It can be understood that today's so-called \"race\" was actually formed in a very recent period, and it is not long for us to \"turn white\" or \"black.\n\n\u003Cdiv class=\"img-container-article\">\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://image.big-history.online/tree_24.25.26/1760336522647_Timeline_of_human_evolution2.jpg\" alt=\"Timeline_of_human_evolution\" />\n\u003Cspan>\nImage source: \u003Ca href=\"https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_human_evolution\" target=\"_blank\">wikipedia\u003C/a>\n\u003C/span>\n\u003Cp class=\"description\">found in \u003Cspan class=\"marker\" enus=\"Oase Cave\" lon=\"21.8333\" lat=\"45.0167\" map=\"HB\" zoom=\"6\">Oase Cave\u003C/span> and named the Oase-2 fossil of the ancient modern human skull and his forensic restoration. You see prehistoric art here, probably from these ancestors. There is the closest genetic affinity between Oase-2 and the \u003Cspan class=\"marker\" enus=\"Yuantian Cave\" lon=\"116.407\" lat=\"39.9042\" map=\"HB\" zoom=\"6\">pastoral cave\u003C/span> people found in northern China, and the \u003Cspan class=\"marker\" enus=\"Yuantian Cave\" lon=\"116.407\" lat=\"39.9042\" map=\"HB\" zoom=\"6\">pastoral cave\u003C/span> people lived about 40000 years ago. It can be seen that the facial lines of the Oase-2 are very rough. This is because the modern people and Neanderthals were in a \"fusion period\" at that time; while the people outside Africa are actually the ancient descendants of the two, but we The Ninese genes in the bloodline have faded, and in the very recent period, \"colored\" geographical species have been differentiated. As for the serial number \"2\" in the naming, this is because the remains of other ancient humans have been found in the same cave. I have to admit that this naming is really \"scientific and archaeological\". Putting aside the cumulative factors of technology, would our ancient ancestors \"laugh\" at today's human artistic imagination?\u003C/p>\n\u003C/div>\n\n\u003Cdiv class=\"img-container-article\">\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://image.big-history.online/tree_24.25.26/1760336631122_Geometric-patterned-stone-tools2.jpg\" alt=\"Geometric-patterned-stone-tools\" />\n\u003Cspan>\nImage source: \u003Ca href=\"https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c0vewjq4dxwo\" target=\"_blank\">BBC\u003C/a>\n\u003C/span>\nThe stone tools with geometric patterns found in South Africa in \u003Cp class=\"description\">were made more than 70000 years ago before the Great Leap Forward. They are one of the earliest evidences of human painting, but they do not belong to mature \"figurative art\".\u003C/p>\n\u003C/div>\n\n\u003Cdiv class=\"img-container-article\">\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://image.big-history.online/tree_24.25.26/1760336710635_shell2.jpg\" alt=\"shell\" />\n\u003Cspan>\nPhoto by \u003Ca href=\"\" target=\"_blank\">Don Hitchcock, donsmaps.com\u003C/a>\n\u003C/span>\n\u003Cp class=\"description\">, a patterned shell, is one of the earliest known human works of art (2025) and was found on the \u003Cspan class=\"marker\" enus=\"Java Island\" lon=\"111.258\" lat=\"-7.50166\" map=\"HB\" zoom=\"4\">island of Java\u003C/span>, \u003Cspan class=\"marker\" enus=\"Nicaea City\" lon=\"29.7211\" lat=\"40.4286\" map=\"HB\" zoom=\"4\">Innesia\u003C/span>. It is very surprising that this object is about 500000 years old, and it is obviously from the hands of Homo erectus, not the \"culture\" of Homo sapiens \". Homo erectus is not a direct ancestor of modern man, and there is controversy as to whether these patterns are \"real art\" (obviously, this controversy is impossible). The bottom right shows where the drill hole is, near the clam's adductor muscle, which forces the shell to open. Perhaps a disaster caused by a volcano or flood, the Java ruins were suddenly buried later, allowing these fragile items to survive; everything happened long, long before the birth of modern man......\u003C/p>\n\u003C/div>\n\nModern people should not forget their own history, including the history of the late Paleolithic, because it is an era full of major changes and the \"important experience\" of mankind; it is from then on that we can be regarded as truly out of Africa and go global. But along with the global migration and proliferation of modern humans, other sister branches of Homo sapiens, such as Neanderthals, Denisovans, and Hobbits, all left silently.\n\nIn the future, modern people will guard their abstract creations alone, those advanced tools and artworks including cave paintings and stone knives; soon, people will still live in settlements with densely covered shacks, and then live in reinforced concrete. City; will also experience the same radical agricultural revolution, industrial revolution, and information revolution, until today. And now, humanity is facing another turning point spawned by abstract creativity: the AI revolution. Can we still understand what is happening as calmly as we look back at history?\n\nIt seems that human beings have awakened a thing that is far stronger than themselves in terms of \"abstract processing power\", **and the ability to think abstractly is also the core of wisdom, which is the most important attribute** that human beings have always been \"unique.\n\nWe are often proud of controlling \"everything\", but our \"lower limit of ability\" has never been raised. Arrogance is always a short board of human beings. Except for the external world, we even think that the genes in our bodies are \"our own\". **But our history is not long, and every human individual is in fact only the first set of genetic mechanisms born in ancient times, after 3.8 billion years of an \"expression\" only**. In fact, human beings have no choice from the very beginning. There can be countless \"heroes\" in the crowd, but on the whole, human beings can not escape the domination of \"fate\". In this regard, we are not fundamentally different from other species......\n\n## References\n\n\n\n《人类起源的故事 : 我们是谁，我们从哪里来》 大卫·赖克；叶凯雄 胡正飞[译]；浙江人民出版社 2019-06\n\n《走出黑暗-人类史前史探秘》克里斯·戈斯登；陈炳辉 陈星灿[译]；外语教学与研究出版社 2015-08\n\n《祖先的故事》[英]理查德·道金斯 [英]黄可仁；许师明[译] 郭运波[译]；中信出版集团出版 2019-07\n\n\u003Cbr>\n\n\u003Ca href=\"https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c0vewjq4dxwo\" target=\"_blank\">World's oldest cave art found showing humans and pig\u003C/a>\n\n\u003Ca href=\"https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-29415716\" target=\"_blank\">Cave paintings change ideas about the origin of art\u003C/a>\n\n\u003Ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Upper_Paleolithic\" target=\"_blank\">Upper Paleolithic\u003C/a>\n\n\u003Ca href=\"https://af.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homo_erectus\" target=\"_blank\">Homo Erectus\u003C/a>\n\n\u003Ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pe%C8%99tera_cu_Oase\" target=\"_blank\">Peștera cu Oase\u003C/a>\n\n\n\u003Cbr>\n\n---\n","About 50000 years ago, our race experienced something very special: just as Athena in Greek mythology injected soul into mankind, mankind suddenly possessed unprecedented figurative artistic creativity. This event, known as the \"Late Paleolithic Revolution\", is a watershed in the history of human evolution.","The Great Leap Forward of Prehistoric Culture: 50000 Years Ago, the Moment when Mankind Really \"Reaped\"","Around 50,000 years ago, our species underwent a truly remarkable transformation: much like Athena in Greek mythology bestowing soul upon humanity, humans suddenly developed an unprecedented capacity for representational artistic creativity. This event, known as the \"Late Paleolithic Revolution\", is a watershed in the history of human evolution. Come and see what happened.","en",0.7,[24,32,40,48,55,62,70,78,86,94,101,109,117,124,131,139],{"id":25,"name":26,"keywords":4,"slug":27,"author":7,"ogImage":28,"isBlog":4,"createDate":29,"updateDate":30,"description":31},"37fb4d2375284b3a9b4176a9419a9ced","Orina Culture","aurignacian-culture","https://image.big-history.online/tree_24.40/1770276727955_720_1760411643106_rhinos-chauvet-cave.jpg","2026-02-27T11:05:34","2026-03-04T22:19:11","What is Aorina culture? Age, distribution, tools, murals and sculptures (Chauvius Caves, Lions, Hochler Fellows Venus).",{"id":33,"name":34,"keywords":4,"slug":35,"author":7,"ogImage":36,"isBlog":4,"createDate":37,"updateDate":38,"description":39},"f04ff6cc20b3488dacfcbe9207617d3a","The earliest modern humans outside Africa","earliest-modern-humans-outside-africa","https://image.big-history.online/tree_24.40/1770276488308_720_1760335068948_Misliya.jpg","2026-02-26T23:51:57","2026-03-04T22:28:04","Where are the earliest modern fossils outside Africa and how many years ago? This article introduces key sites such as Kafze and Misria, and combs the real timeline of modern people coming out of Africa.\n",{"id":41,"name":42,"keywords":4,"slug":43,"author":7,"ogImage":44,"isBlog":4,"createDate":45,"updateDate":46,"description":47},"3430c1759ae64ef28ee275be703e3ff7","Marta-Bret culture","malta-buret-culture","https://image.big-history.online/tree_24.40/1770276830881_720_1761535507344_Princess_of_Xiaohe2.jpg","2026-02-27T20:07:01","2026-03-04T22:12:43","What is the Marta-Brett culture? Who were the ancient northern Eurasian people (ANE)? This article explains this 24000-year-old Siberian culture, its genetic contributions, and its relationship with the Little River Princess.",{"id":49,"name":50,"keywords":4,"slug":51,"author":7,"ogImage":52,"isBlog":4,"createDate":53,"updateDate":53,"description":54},"a6ba6edf177e46d1a6a29093808c3d50","The emergence of metal products in the Americas","earliest-metal-artifacts-in-peru-appeared","https://image.big-history.online/tree_24.40/1770277962517_720_1764053945703_Jiska2002.jpg","2026-03-05T14:18:52","Around 2000 BC, the earliest metal products in the Americas appeared in Peru, mainly gold and copper ornaments, with gold necklaces from Jiskairumoko ruins as key evidence. At the same time, the Maya entered the early pre-classical period.",{"id":56,"name":57,"keywords":4,"slug":58,"author":7,"ogImage":59,"isBlog":4,"createDate":60,"updateDate":60,"description":61},"4c5c07a38ee646688b1917110cb09598","Chengtoushan, China’s earliest city","earliest-citie-in-china","https://image.big-history.online/tree_24.40/1770277030867_720_000124_1711414904136.jpg","2026-02-28T01:05:28","The ancient city of Chengtou Mountain, about 6300 years ago, is the earliest known city in China and belongs to the Daxi culture. This article describes the archaeological discoveries of its age, city walls, rice farming, houses and tombs.",{"id":63,"name":64,"keywords":4,"slug":65,"author":7,"ogImage":66,"isBlog":4,"createDate":67,"updateDate":68,"description":69},"6964d3585c484e9992c13df47ab89f63","The earliest copper ore experiment","earliest-metallurgical-experiments","https://image.big-history.online/tree_24.40/1770277004934_720_1762739010884_Diyarbakır32.jpg","2026-02-28T00:54:22","2026-03-04T22:24:03","When did the earliest human metallurgical experiments begin? How did malachite, fire and pottery technology lead to copper smelting? This article introduces the technological revolution from copper ore to the Bronze Age.\n",{"id":71,"name":72,"keywords":4,"slug":73,"author":7,"ogImage":74,"isBlog":4,"createDate":75,"updateDate":76,"description":77},"ab79c75d543241bab8ca314d00c981c0","Jericho, the first walled city in human history.","jericho-first-city-with-wall","https://image.big-history.online/tree_24.40/1770276977877_720_1762316667873_Jericho52.jpg","2026-02-28T00:34:28","2026-02-28T00:37:54","Jericho is the world's earliest walled city, more than ten thousand years ago. This paper systematically introduces the archaeological truth of the Talsudan site, the former pottery neolithic culture, the stone tower, the city wall and the biblical story.",{"id":79,"name":80,"keywords":4,"slug":81,"author":7,"ogImage":82,"isBlog":4,"createDate":83,"updateDate":84,"description":85},"634c89277e8b44548fdd77457621def0","Gobekli Tepe","gobekli-tepe","https://image.big-history.online/tree_24.40/1770276927213_720_1761552687193_Bobekli_Tepe62.jpg","2026-02-27T21:36:46","2026-03-04T22:22:19","What is Göbekli Tepe? Its dating, structure, carvings, builders, and significance. This article introduces the oldest large-scale religious site, predating the pyramids and overturning our understanding of human prehistory.",{"id":87,"name":88,"keywords":4,"slug":89,"author":7,"ogImage":90,"isBlog":4,"createDate":91,"updateDate":92,"description":93},"4f7f68664ec94053856b5cb629a4be94","Domestication of dogs","domestication-of-dogs","https://image.big-history.online/tree_24.40/1770276806239_720_1761533583097_Domestication_of_the_dog52.jpg","2026-02-27T19:32:55","2026-03-04T22:16:03","Dog is the first animal domesticated by human beings. What kind of process did it go through from gray wolf to domestic dog? When and where did it originate? This paper systematically explains the domestication history, archaeological evidence and genetic truth of dog.",{"id":95,"name":96,"keywords":4,"slug":97,"author":7,"ogImage":98,"isBlog":4,"createDate":99,"updateDate":99,"description":100},"cb82ee0915fa4a8b8b6db69cb750d76e","The MRCA of modern humans","most-recent-common-ancestor-of-modern-humans","https://image.big-history.online/tree_24.40/1770276783618_720_1761530294216_The-origin-of-humans32.jpg","2026-02-27T19:08:16","What is the most recent common ancestor (MRCA) of modern humans? How is it different from Mitochondrial Eve and Y-chromosome Adam? This article uses popular logic to explain the mystery of the common ancestor of all mankind.",{"id":102,"name":103,"keywords":4,"slug":104,"author":7,"ogImage":105,"isBlog":4,"createDate":106,"updateDate":107,"description":108},"56d7cb86a53c4401aeeff2c9fd93f6b5","Gravitt Culture","gravettian-culture","https://image.big-history.online/tree_24.40/1770276753186_720_1762675867705_Venus_of_Brassempouy.jpg","2026-02-27T13:38:11","2026-03-04T22:21:42","What is Gravitt culture? Age, tools, Venus statues, Songgil tombs, Dorny Vestonietzsche ruins, one article to understand the glorious culture of European prehistory.\n",{"id":110,"name":111,"keywords":4,"slug":112,"author":7,"ogImage":113,"isBlog":4,"createDate":114,"updateDate":115,"description":116},"02dc8cb3fb8a4f41a87671463267f5e8","Denisovans mixed with modern people","hybridization-between-denisovans-and-modern-humans","https://image.big-history.online/tree_24.40/1770276654946_720_000124_1704329927656.jpg","2023-11-24T14:20:52","2026-03-12T10:23:51","Denisovans are an ancient human species discovered through DNA analysis. They coexisted with Neanderthals and modern humans and interbred with both. This paper provides a detailed analysis of gene flow, the EPAS1 gene on the Tibetan Plateau, the Xiahe mandible, and the distribution of ancestral components across global populations.\n",{"id":118,"name":119,"keywords":4,"slug":120,"author":7,"ogImage":121,"isBlog":4,"createDate":122,"updateDate":115,"description":123},"dc3c57ca41ee45f8858842605c3045e6","The Hobbit Extinction","extinction-of-hobbits","https://image.big-history.online/tree_24.40/1770276601930_720_1761974884022_Homo_floresiensis_cave.jpg","2023-11-23T16:27:59","Who were the Flores (Hobbits)? Why were they short? When did they become extinct? This article describes the fossils, evolution and extinction of this mysterious dwarf human.\n",{"id":125,"name":126,"keywords":4,"slug":127,"author":7,"ogImage":128,"isBlog":4,"createDate":129,"updateDate":129,"description":130},"39e78b8f996c4a5e9db08680a5679edb","Neanderthals mixed with modern humans","hybridization-between-neanderthals-and-modern-humans","https://image.big-history.online/tree_24.40/1770276568618_720_1762762802424_hybridization-between-neanderthals-and-modern-humans.jpg","2026-02-27T10:39:43","Are modern people mixed with Neanderthals? How many Neanderthals genes do Europeans, Asians and Africans each contain? This article understands the history of gene exchange and evolution between humans and Neanderthals.\n",{"id":132,"name":133,"keywords":4,"slug":134,"author":7,"ogImage":135,"isBlog":4,"createDate":136,"updateDate":137,"description":138},"f94253e20113427385837238315d21c8","Modern man in the sense of anatomy","anatomically-modern-humans","https://image.big-history.online/tree_24.40/1770276414249_720_1762690305711_Anatomically-modern-humans.jpg","2026-02-26T22:41:52","2026-02-26T22:43:27","What is modern man in the sense of anatomy? This paper systematically introduces the origin and characteristics of late Homo sapiens from the definition, key fossils (Jebel Iro, Omo, Herto), age and evolutionary diffusion.\n",{"id":140,"name":141,"keywords":4,"slug":142,"author":7,"ogImage":143,"isBlog":4,"createDate":144,"updateDate":145,"description":146},"650fb920a825478aba09b4410abf55ab","Recent common ancestor based on chromosomes 1-22","most-recent-common-ancestor-chromosome","https://image.big-history.online/tree_24.40/1770276375616_720_1761526548499_Chromosomal-fragment-recombination.jpg","2026-02-26T22:20:53","2026-02-26T22:21:27","Interpreting the recent common ancestor of human autosomes 1-22 from a genomic perspective, explaining DNA recombination, mutation and ancestral fragment inheritance, and popularizing the common ancestor time in the sense of human genetics.",1774515947306]