Middle Palaeolithic artefacts emerged during excavation at Attirampakkam. Sharma Centre for Heritage Education, India Modern humans could have left Africa shortly after evolving, making...
Prehistory
Before written records, humanity left its history in landscapes, artifacts, bones, and inherited memory. Explore our origins and movements across the earth, the rise of settled life, and the communities that built worlds without writing.
By about 320,000 years ago, humans in Kenya began using color pigments and manufacturing more sophisticated tools. Human...
A reconstruction of Homo erectus making fire, Zhoukoudian Museum, China. Darren Curnoe, Author provided Few of us pause to reflect...
Artist’s impression of waterfalls pouring over the original land bridge connecting England with France. CREDIT: Imperial College London/Chase...
Photo by Ivor Molleema, Florida Department of State In an unprecedented discovery, archaeologists identify a site where...
Ivory beads and ochre—affixed to the pelvic bones of a child—likely decorated the burial clothing of this...
Neanderthal art. P. Saura   By Dr. Chris Standish (left) and Dr. Alistair Pike (right) / 02.22.2018 Standish:...
By Matthew A. McIntoshPublic HistorianBrewminate 1 – Early Inhabitants of the Americas 1.1 – Migration to North...
Deep inside Monte Kronio, hot, humid and sulfurous caves held an ancient secret. Giuseppe Savino, La Venta Esplorazioni...
Paleolithic sculptures found in caves are some of the earliest examples of representational art. Hand Stencils from...
Creative Commons Edited by Matthew A. McIntosh / 02.12.2018 Historian Editor-in-Chief, Brewminate The Study of History Splitting...
Fossilized teeth from a modern human who lived in Israel close to 200,000 years ago. Israel Hershkovitz, Tel...
During Wintersession, students learn to make and use the technology that revolutionized human life. The atlatl, or...
Artefacts revealed by melting ice patches in the high mountains of Oppland shed new light on ancient...
A neanderthal skull, left hand side of one of Boule’s stereographs included in his L’Homme de La Chapelle (1911)...
New excavations on the remote island of Keros reveal monumental architecture and technological sophistication at the dawn...
Zooarchaeologist E. Grace Veatch investigates rat remains near the Liang Bua Cave on the Indonesian island of...
Map of France showing the location of Lascaux By Mary Beth Looney / 11.19.2015 Acting Program Director...
The first study to compare ancient and living female bones shows that women from early agricultural eras...
Early humans seem to have recognised the dangers of inbreeding at least 34,000 years ago, and developed surprisingly sophisticated...
The skull of a Neandertal known as Shanidar 1 show signs of a blow to the head...
This diagram depicts part of the Late Neolithic farmhouse with the position of the postholes. Drawing: Archaeologist...
Jean-Jacques Hublin, MPI-EVA, Leipzig By Dr. Matthew Skinner / 06.07.2017 Senior Lecturer in Evolutionary Anthropology University of...
The stone flakes are flying, but what brain regions are firing? / Photo by Shelby S. Putt...
Satellite image of California’s San Andreas fault, where two continental plates come together. NASA/GSFC/METI/ERSDAC/JAROS, and U.S./Japan ASTER...
Sunset on a Cretaceous River by Rhynn By Dr. Patrick Forber (photo) and Dr. Eric Griffith Forber...