Homo Erectus vs. the Desert

Weekly Jarlig #2 – Your fresh scoop of history and archaeology

Hey, history buffs!

Welcome to another edition of the Weekly Jarlig, your go-to source for the latest updates from history’s frontlines.

Are you guys a fan of Bear Grylls?

His show Man vs. Wild displays his exceptional survival skills under testing conditions and gives us a glimpse of how our prehistoric ancestors must have withstood rugged terrain and inhospitable conditions to triumph against nature.

We are the last hominin species left. This would make us naturally complacent about our survival skills, superior to those of other hominins that went extinct. But a latest discovery challenges this view.

Homo Erectus, the earliest known human-like species which migrated out of Africa, colonizing Asia and Europe and credited with discovering fire, had remarkable survival skills which were previously believed to exist only among Homo Sapiens.

Let’s find out!