“Nothing’s inside that thick skull of yours!” “You’re such a Neanderthal!” “Use that coconut.” Well, it’s time to celebrate all that’s amazing and jawdropping about the human skull—and how mightily enduring our noggin’ is—as the Ateneo Department of Sociology and Anthropology and the Rizal Library, in collaboration with Crania Heritage Sciences, Inc., jointly present “The Journey of Mankind: First Humans Out of Africa—The Hominids of Dmanisi, Georgia,” a series of exhibits and lectures about the journey of the Homo erectus in Africa. Man has long been leaping boundaries and reaching highly advanced milestones to keep moving toward the future—but that doesn’t mean man has to stop looking back to the past. The past is an important part of mankind that tells the story of how the first men, our ancestors, were able to survive and become the men that we know now. The stars of the show are the three [...]
