Among the research headlines of previous Ig Nobel awardees were why old men have big ears (2017-Anatomy), that the word "huh?" (or
Archaeologist Christopher Henshilwood from the University of Bergen thinks that this drawing shows us that Homo sapiens virtually behaved like us 70,000
So let’s listen…About 15 thousand years ago, somewhere in Africa, people were burying their dead in the depths of a cave, placing
Do they really? They do not have a huge similarity at first glance. Let’s ask it this way: Do Cyrillic, Arabic, Sanskrit,
Prehistoric women that lived in Central Europe during the first 5,500 years of farming had stronger upper arms than today’s female champion
A team of researchers from the University of Washington, Harvard Medical School and Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History,
Human-built cultures have transformed from small hunter-gatherer groups into massive, complex and organized societies for the last 10 thousand years. This cultural
How was music born, how did it begin? Did our ancestors first create rhythm by beating objects, or did they first sing
French philosopher, mathematician and scientist René Descartes marked the history of humanity with his famous words “I think, therefore I am”. The skull
The mysterious and interesting South American civilisation also had a slightly peculiar alphabet. It consisted of “khipus”, twisted cords made of colourful
