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Around the World in Explorer Names

The American Geographical Society has long invited big-name adventurers—Amelia Earhart, Neil Armstrong—to sign its ceremonial globe. The latest? Astronaut Kathryn Sullivan.

The Constant Rediscovery of Barbara Trapido

The cult novelist is planning a sequel to “Brother of the More Famous Jack.” What accounts for her persistent appeal?

Pioneering fossil hunter recognised with blue plaque

Dorothea Bate discovered the dwarf elephant and the myotragus, an extinct goat-like antelope.

A Career Spent Collecting Earth’s Seismic Clues

Göran Ekström tracks incidents like landslides and glacier collapse using tools once used only to monitor earthquakes.

An Ecosystem of Her Own

Maren Hassinger’s alchemical touch transforms the most resistant materials into evocations of the endlessly changing natural world.

A Wooden Club and Other Rare Finds Reveal ‘Invisible’ Side of Neanderthal Life

“Perhaps the simplest message is that the Palaeolithic was not a world made only of stone.”

Ms., Martians and Guacamole: Their First Time in The Times

Our reporters share a compendium of debuts, discoveries and (sometimes overdue) appearances in the paper.

The Monte Verde controversy is back: who first lived in the Americas?

The Monte Verde sites in Chile have been the source of arguments among archaeologists for decades. Columnist Michael Marshall finds the row is heating up again – and could change o...

A Feminist Humanist’s Last Word

I went into France's prehistoric caves. The world hasn't looked the same since

I expected ancient paintings. Instead, I found myself weeping in total darkness. A journey through seven caves became a search for what our ancestors knew about being human, and wh...

The Center of All Creation

I first learned of Ossabaw Island from Musa Mayer’s Night Studio (1988), a memoir of her life as Philip Guston’s daughter. At the time I was writing a short story about Guston and...

Impressions of Wooden Neanderthal Tools Found in Spain

BARCELONA, SPAIN—La Brújula Verde reports that 13 impressions left in travertine in northeastern Spain's Abric […] The post Impressions of Wooden Neanderthal Tools Found in Spain a...