The first men and the origin of our genre (the Homo genre) have always fascinated people. The evolutionary history of Man has become more complex over the past thirty years. Formerly the result of a linear vision, it is now associated with bushy models where several species are present in the same regions. Where is the cradle of humanity located? When? Who are the first men? What is the environmental framework? How did they move? What were they doing? Were they the first craftsmen of stone tools? What were they eating? What could their social organizations be? Etc.… We will review here these different questions in the light of recent discoveries, both paleoanthropological and cultural: on what we know, what we think we know and what we imagine.
Who is Sandrine Prat?
Sandrine Prat is Research Director at the CNRS, Paleoanthropologist at the Musée de l’Homme; Specializing in anatomical studies of the first humans and their contemporaries the Paranthropes, she combines fieldwork in northern Kenya and laboratory research in order to better understand the first human settlements and the factors that define the genus Homo so much. ‘from a biological as well as a cultural point of view.
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