Veronica Waweru describes some of her game-changing research on ancient hunting and what it was like to work with our television crew.

Have you ever wondered about how archaeologists keep track of the tiny shards of bone or ancient tools they uncover at their dig sites?

Alan Alda vists the rock shelter of Abri Castanet in Southwest France where he is shocked to learn about some of our ancestors’ early behaviors.

Alan Alda travels to a French cave called Roc de Marsal, where archaeologists are becoming experts on Neanderthal life.

For John Shea, the way we posed our questions about the human spark got him pondering the evolution of our human uniqueness in a new way.

John Shea at Stony Brook University is keeping alive the stone toolmaking technologies used by our most ancient ancestors.

Scientists are attacking the question of how we became human from a number of new directions – in addition to analyzing the evidence of ancient fossils.

Amanda Henry showed us how she very gently scrapes dental plaque from the Skhul 5 skull’s molars to find out what our ancestors may have eaten.