THE Flintstones cartoon may have fooled a generation of kids into thinking that dinosaurs lived in the Stone Age, but Fred, Wilma and baby Pebble’s nuclear family turns out to be a realistic model for how people lived then.
DNA from the remains of people massacred at what is now Eulau in Germany has provided the first evidence of what archaeologists always suspected: that humans have lived in nuclear families for thousands of years.
The evidence for Stone Age nuclear families had been flimsy and based on speculation about relationships between adults and children found buried together as well as…
