Human Bridges

• What Google Street View Can Say About the Quality of Life in Your Neighborhood
• Hyperprosociality: A Compelling Theory to Explain a Key Trait of Modern Humans
• A Historical Case for Why the EU Could Endure for More Than 1,000 Years
• Advances in Archaeology Allow Us to Understand Political Evolution and Social Change in Deep Time
• An Ancient Recipe for Social Success
• Anthropology for Kids and Visual Assembly Are Reimagining Work, Education, Money, and More
• Archaeology Is Flipping the Script on What We Know About Ancient Mesoamerica
• Archeologists Join Geologists in the Quest to Define the Age of Humans
• Are Western Oligarchies a Long Detour of Civilization?
• Can Teething Predict How Fast You Will Grow?
• Cities Made Differently: Try Imagining Another Urban Existence
• Climate Crises Can Lead to Improved Social Cooperation and Economy
• Coins and Temples in the Ancient World
• Debt Forgiveness in the Bronze Age
• Debt in Ancient Greece
• Digging Up the Roots of Human Culture
• Discarding Old Theories on the Path to Finding the First Humans Outside Africa
• Do Grandmothers Hold the Key to Understanding Human Evolution?
• Do Other Animals Have Consciousness? Science Could Force Us to Rethink Our Relationships With Them
• Exploring Ancient Understandings of Meteorites in Archaic Societies
• Facing a Surge in Wildfires, the U.S. Government Turned to Native Wisdom and Advanced Archaeology
• Finding the Roots of Religion in Human Prehistory
• Free Market Ideology Compared to the Principles of Near Eastern Rulership
• How Archaeologists Can Solve the Earth’s ‘Wicked Problems’
• How Can We Understand the Passage of Time?
• How Can the Study of Hierarchy/Heterarchy Influence the Future?
• How Elite Infighting Made the Magna Carta
• How Decision-Making Is Affected by Social Conformity
• How Greek Coinage Democratized the Character of Money
• How Inclusionary Social Movements Succeed
• How Mesopotamia’s Urban and Industrial Revolution Started Politics as We Know It Today
• How Much of the Past Should We Bring Back to Life?
• How Pseudo-Archaeology and Phony Alt-History Rose to Popularity in the U.S.
• How Three New Museums Are Teaching the World About a Paradigm Shift in Our Understanding of Human Origins
• How We Distribute Power Will Influence Our Future
• How the Crusades Shaped Finance in the West
• Human Bridges Project: A New Wave of Information for Our Times
• Investigating a Bronze Age Mystery: A Cemetery Full of Princes, but No Palaces in Sight
• Is Politics All in the Mind?
• It’s Not Just Ideology: Why the U.S. Is Hard-Wired to Be Hostile to Autocratic Regimes
• Keys to Building Human Bridges to the Past
• Mainstream Ideology Defends Creditor Claims Over the Indebted Economy
• Modern (Mis)interpretations of Clean Slates
• Our Ability to Think in Terms of Numbers Is Universal, Abstract, and Independent From Language
• Our Ancient Relationship With Red Ocher and the Color of Cognition
• Parallels Between Archaic Entrepots and Modern Offshore Banking Centers
• Gallery: Past Objects of Artistic Representation and Ornament
• Perceptions of Social Dominance and How to Change Them
• Private Enterprise Originated in Public Institutions
• Prepared Learning: What Are Humans Hard-Wired for at Birth?
• Political Collapse: Lessons From Fallen Empires
• Property and Debt in Ancient Rome
• Robert Sapolsky on Free Will and Biology of Our Behavior
• Rethinking Rank and Privilege in Human Societies
• Roman Oligarchs Avoided Tax Liability and Restrictions on Land Size
• Seven Features of Ancient Enterprise
• Six Questions for a World That Seems to Be Losing Interest in Democracy
• Some Myths Regarding the Genesis of Enterprise
• Eight Themes in Mesopotamia’s Evolving Labor-Shaped Economies
• The Adaptive Value of Teenagers: How Peer Learning Contributes to Primate Success
• The Ancient Patterns of Migration
• The Controversy Over Cannibalism
• The Cradle of Humanity
• The Evolution of the Human Pair Bond
• The Frontier Research of Michael Levin’s Biology Lab
• The Great Archaeological Discovery of Our Time
• The Hunter-Gatherer Guide to Keeping Society Equal​
• The Lessons of Ancient Entrepreneurship
• The Monetary Role of Silver in Sumer
• The Mystery of the Missing Apes Who Came Before Humans
• The New Grand Tour
• The Origins and Nature of Bronze-Age Interest Rates
• The Privatization of Law, Religion and Culture
• The Relevance of Ancient History to Modern Economic Crises
• The Role of Ancient DNA in Modern Traits
• The Science of Twins and the Human Fascination With Them
• The Surprising Ways Inventions and Ideas Spread in Ancient Prehistory
• The Unexpected Path to the Mamari Tablet—A Personal Discovery
• We Can Interpret How Cooperative or Autocratic Mesoamerican Societies Were From Their Systems of Communication
• What Are the Origins of the Money We Use Today? Revisiting Heinrich Schurtz’s Groundbreaking Research
• What Does Play Tell Us About Human Evolution?
• What Happened to Our Ape Ancestors?
• What Ideas From the Paleolithic Are Still With Us in the Modern World?
• What Motivates People to Move Megaliths?
• What Was Humanity’s First Cultural Revolution?
• What Was It Like for Our Sapiens Ancestors to Meet and Mix With Cousin Species?
• Where Do Living Creatures Get Their Sense of Rhythm?
• Why Are Archaeologists Unable to Find Evidence of a Ruling Class for the Indus Civilization?
• Why Does Our Skin Wrinkle in Water?
• Why Culture Is Not the Only Tool for Defining Homo sapiens in Relation to Other Hominins
• Why Humanity Should Look to Its Roots as We Revillage Our Towns and Cities
• Why Is Prehistory Inspiring So Many Artists?
• Archaeology Can Now Tell Us How People Have Muffled and Challenged Economic Inequality Across History
• How Long Has Humanity Been at War With Itself?
• Not as Simple as 1, 2, 3: Humanity Has a Surprisingly Diverse Understanding of Numbers
• Skyscrapers of Babel: How Ancient Mesopotamia Shaped the Modern City
• The Central Role of Collaboration and Trust in Human Societies
• War Is Not Inevitable—A More Peaceful Future Is Possible
• Learning From History, If We Dare
• Survival of the Cutest
• We Did Not Evolve to Be Selfish—and Humans Are Increasingly Aware We Can Choose How Our Cultures Can Evolve
• Dead States, Living Borders: Three Historical Cases of ‘State Revival’: Armenia, Vietnam, and Poland
• When Did Societal Elites Emerge?
• The Multi-Million-Year Path to Becoming Human—Are We Actually There Yet?
• A Scholar’s Quest to Find the Ancestral People of the Most Influential Language on Earth
• Paranthropus and the Greatest Whodunit of All Time
• Widening the ‘We’
• The Growth of Malignant and Exclusionary Social Movements
• What the First Anti-Vaccine Movement Reveals About Fear and Science
• Costa Rica: The New Grand Tour
• France: The New Grand Tour
• South Africa: The New Grand Tour
• Parameters of Animal Mortuary Behavior
• Humans Face Pareidolic Experiences to Our Advantage
• Neuroaesthetics: The Human Evolutionary Preference for Symmetry and Luster
• Toward a New Common Sense of Abundance
• Widening the ‘We’: Meeting the Crisis of Common Sense
• Scale Raises the Ceiling, but Fiscal Foundations Determine Whether Autocracy or Democracy Prevails
• Arkeopolitics: Reframing Human History from Scratch
• Democracy Depends on Broad-Based Taxation—History Is Clear About That
• How Humans Used Their Hands to Remember Everything
• The Creation of Order
• Building Fairer Cities: New Insights From Mohenjo-daro
• How Stone Tools, Fire, and Language Paved the Highway to Artificial Intelligence
• Parameters of Animal Self-Medication Behavior
• The Mirror of Neolithic Art: How Çatalhöyük Confronts the Hubris of the Modernist Perspective
• Human Origins Destroys Core Fascist Mythology
• Ritual, Power, and the Weekend Arena
• How Prehistoric Humans Discovered Fire Making
• The Mesopotamian Origin of Debt
• Was the Sphere the First Geometrical Form Made by Humans?

Isaias Hernandez

Isias Hernandez aims to improve environmental literacy through content creation, storytelling, and public engagement.

Caroline Cox

Caroline Cox is a pesticide scientist whose work has focused on the health and environmental impacts of pesticides.

Daniel Klem Jr.

Daniel Klem Jr. is the Sarkis Acopian Professor of Ornithology and Conservation Biology and director of the Acopian Center for Ornithology at Muhlenberg College.

Robin Scher

Robin Scher is a freelance writer and journalist based in South Africa.

Judy Wicks

Judy Wicks is an activist, entrepreneur, author, and speaker working to build a more compassionate, just, regenerative and locally based economy.

Cate Mingoya-LaFortune

Cate Mingoya-LaFortune is a climate adaptation planner, community organizer, educator, and author.

Deborah Barsky

Deborah Barsky is a writing fellow for the Human Bridges project of the Independent Media Institute, a researcher at the Catalan Institute of Human Paleoecology and Social Evolution, and an associate professor at the Rovira i Virgili University in Tarragona, Spain, with the Open University of Catalonia (UOC). She is the author of ''Human Prehistory: Exploring the Past to Understand the Future''.

Yann Perreau

Yann Perreau is a writer, educator, contemporary art curator, and writing fellow for the Human Bridges project of the Independent Media Institute. He has published several books on art, climate, anonymity, and more. His articles have appeared in many publications, including Libération, Art Press, and East of Borneo. He has served as a cultural attaché for both the French Embassy in London and the French Consulate in Los Angeles. He holds an MPhil in art history from Paris’s EHESS.

Eva Miller

Eva Miller is a British Academy postdoctoral fellow at University College London History.

Julieta Campagna

Julieta Campagna monitors coastal protected areas for the Wildlife Conservation Society.

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