10 Facts That Destroy Everything We Were Taught About Prehistory

Ten findings that broke the version of prehistory taught in schools. Neanderthal DNA sitting in the bodies of six billion living people. An entire human species known from a finger bone and no skull. Skeletons showing that the first farmers were shorter and sicker than the hunter-gatherers they replaced. Rock art of swimmers and hippopotamus in the middle of the Sahara. Twenty-three thousand year old footprints in New Mexico, ten thousand years before anybody was supposed to be there. Two separate small-bodied human species alive on islands while we were painting Lascaux. Cave art thirty-six thousand years old with no learning curve behind it. A hundred and twenty metres of drowned coastline where most people actually lived. A layer in the ice that may record a catastrophe. And a genetic revolution that only works in cold dry ground.