Stonehenge was constructed from around 3000 BCE to roughly 2000 BCE. Introduction Stonehenge is a prehistoric monument on Salisbury Plain in Wiltshire, England, two...
Prehistoric
Although people often think of the past as a time of simplicity, the truth is that ancestors...
Evidence of pre-Clovis cultures has accumulated and pushed back the possible date of the first peopling of...
Ancient DNA in sub-Saharan Africa reveals how people moved, mingled, had children, and lived. By Dr. Jessica...
Reconstructing a brief history of the discipline using five phases periodization. Introduction Twenty-five years ago Marcel Desittere,...
A series of Stone Age geniuses invented a range of technologies that shaped human evolution and laid...
Evidence points to Homo sapiens living at Grotte Mandrin 54,000 years ago when Neanderthals were still living...
Walking took a very long time to develop, with evidence of bipedalism among early humans in Africa...
Humans left Africa to settle all across the world, probably multiple times. Introduction Previous evidence suggested that...
The 5,300-year-old mummy of Ötzi the Iceman was found 30 years ago with 61 tattoos on it....
These giant predators are helping solve the mystery of Earth’s cooling shift some 50 million years ago....
Some dinosaurs likely hunted at night and had senses as good as a modern barn owl. By...
Use and control of fire was a gradual process, proceeding through many stages. Curated/Reviewed by Matthew A....
Neanderthals had the capacity to perceive and produce human speech. When the ancestors of anatomically-modern non-Africans came...
The longest known trackway of ancient human fossil footprints, offering evidence of interactions between an adult and...
During the Iron Age, Central, Western and most of Eastern Europe gradually entered the historical period. Introduction...
Did people settle these islands by traveling north from South America, or in the other direction? Artifacts...
Scientists are starting to untangle how the region was populated. Introduction The very first human beings originally...
Examining the lifestyle of these early humans, their distinctive characteristics, and what they were like. By Lisa...
Exploring archery technology, the production of bone tools and ground stone tools, flintknapping, and prehistoric pottery. Overview...
2.6-million-year-old tools from Olduvai Gorge in Tanzania. Introduction The appearance of simple stone tools, widely known as...
People have lived with infectious disease throughout the millennia, with culture and biology influencing each other. Introduction...
Rock art is the primary source to study the culture, rituals, traditions, and lives of prehistoric societies....
There is growing evidence that our closest extinct human relative wasn’t as dumb as scientists had long...
Evidence for trephination occurs from the Neolithic period onwards. Introduction Trephination (also known as trepanning or burr...
Stomach ulcers, herpes, ringworm and other tropical diseases may have all contributed to the Neanderthal demise. By...
Human communication was revolutionized with the origin of speech approximately 500,000 BCE. Introduction The history of communication...
The taxon Dinosauria was formally named by the English palaeontologist Richard Owen in 1842. Introduction Dinosaurs are...
During this period major climatic and other changes occurred, affecting the evolution of humans. Introduction The Paleolithic...
Studying animal tooling can provide clues to the mysteries of human evolution. Human beings used to be...