Was there a "big bang" in human language and cognitive development, or did speech and abstract thought evolve slowly - perhaps across 200,000 years or so? Surveying prehistoric burial sites and other archaeological finds, including what might be the...
This ABC News program spotlights the work of Doug Owsley, curator at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of Natural History, who is a keen interpreter of the silent yet expressive language of bones. Owsley and his biographer, Jeff Benedi...