Communities around the globe invested immense effort into creating stone monuments that mediated between life and death,...
Prehistory
By Matthew A. McIntoshPublic HistorianBrewminate Introduction: Reconstructing the Neanderthal Male Prehistoric Neanderthals—Homo neanderthalensis—once evoked brutish caricatures in...
The migrations of Bronze Age men were seismic forces that shaped genetic maps, political systems, and gender...
Female-focused social structures have been suggested for some iron age groups by archaeologists – and for some...
Symbolic practices began for much more practical purposes. By Dr. Maria-José Iriarte-ChiapussoIkerbasque Research ProfessorUniversity of the Basque...
Evolution takes time. By Danielle HallOcean Portal Digital ProducerMuseum of Natural HistorySmithsonian Institution Introduction The ocean may...
Religious behavior is one of the hallmarks of behavioral modernity. Introduction Paleolithic religions are a set of spiritual beliefs and...
Burials were first innovated in the Levant. A new study by Professor Ella Been from Ono Academic College...
The first-known seafarers to brave ocean crossings. By Dr. Dylan GaffneyAssociate Professor in Palaeolithic ArchaeologyHertford CollegeUniversity of...
The artifacts found with them attest to cultural and technological changes in the Upper Paleolithic. By Dr....
Divisions of labor are found across all human societies. By Dr. Vivek V. VenkataramanAssistant Professor of AnthropologyUniversity...
The essential role that prehistoric mothers played in driving population growth during the Neolithic period. Introduction The...
Bronze Age and Iron Age religions are understood in part through archaeological records. Introduction Prehistoric religion is the religious practice...
Religion is unique to humans. By Hervey C. PeoplesPhD Candidate in Archaeology and AnthropologyUniversity of Cambridge By...
The stone age saw a pattern where technologies like spears, fire, and bows were invented once, then...
Paleolithic women likely hunted game, not just gathered plants. By Dr. Sarah LacyAssistant Professor of AnthropologyUniversity of...
Ancient DNA from Neanderthal fossils reveals a small community with close family ties. Introduction Our closest evolutionary...
There are several factors that made the evolution of prehistoric technology possible or necessary. Introduction Prehistoric technology is technology that...
Evidence of pre-Clovis cultures has accumulated and pushed back the possible date of the first peopling of...
Human communication was revolutionized with the origin of speech approximately 500,000 BCE. Introduction The history of communication...
Hand axes from the site of Saffaqah, Saudi Arabia. (Palaeodeserts/Ian R. Cartwright) Hominins made stone tools in central...
Archaeological excavation at Ain Boucherit, Algeria. Mathieu Duval, Author provided Ancient stone tools found in what is now Algeria show early humans likely spread across Africa more rapidly than...
The ‘Venus of Willendorf’ at around 28,000 years old is one of the earliest depictions of women...
A neolithic farm in Scotland that may be the oldest in northern Europe. / Photo by Drewcorser, Wikimedia...
April 1562, The Timucua, an indigenous tribe in Florida, shoot burning arrows into the village of a...
Archaeological evidence to date suggests that all human beings were hunter-gatherers prior to twelve thousand years ago. Curated/Reviewed...
India’s Mawmluh Cave, home of the reference stalagmite for the newly named age. Abhijeet Khedgikar/Shutterstock.com 2018 brought...
Early agrarian women—like these murdered in what is now western France some 6500 years ago—may have been...
Skull of a Homo sapiens (a.k.a. modern human) individual, on display at the Harvard Museum of Natural...
This hand was discovered in articulation and all bones are represented except for the pisiform. / Photo...