Category: Evolution of Babywearing
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Neanderthal-Human Baby Making, Dated | Baby News
Around five hundred thousand years ago our evolutionary ancestors diverged creating archaic humans outside of Africa, including Neanderthals (H neanderthalensis) in Europe and the Middle East. Modern humans (H sapiens) emerged in Africa by two-hundred thousand years ago and when they started migrating out of Africa, they encountered Neanderthals. But when? Modern humans left Africa…
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Neanderthal Breastfeeding | Baby History Shorts
In 2013, a paper looked at the barium deposits in the development of teeth in human children and captive macaques for which feeding history was known. Barium is limited during gestation by the placenta, but immediately after birth, barium deposits shoot up with breastfeeding. Researchers could tell when the human babies were supplemented with, or…
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10,000 Year Old Baby Carrier | Baby History Shorts
One of the complications of studying infant care in history, let alone prehistory (before writing), is that organic materials do not survive, that includes the clothing and carriers, as well as the bodies of infants themselves. The lack of remains has many causes: fewer births in preagricultural societies, infants grow into adults, and the remains…
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Transport Response
Wouldn’t it be great if there was some infallible trick to calm a crying baby? According to science, there just might be. (Get on your walking shoes.)
The Baby Historian 