Prehistoric cave paintings; Egyptian pyramids and temples; classical Greek statues. As the Ice Age glaciers melted, European civilization was born—and with it, so was art. From the Stone Age came ...

Roughly 1,000 years ago, residents of pueblos in the American southwest appear to have had an appetite for imported chocolate, according to new research. The finding, based on chemical traces found in ...

We know what the oldest civilizations in the world are thanks to archaeology, but there are many others we are only just discovering. Throughout human history, forgotten civilizations that shaped ...

Prehistoric human civilizations in northern Europe may have enjoyed their food with a spicy kick, using a garlic-mustard-type seasoning to flavor their dishes, thousands of years before the height of ...

P ity the poor Homo sapiens. In the great museums of the future, the display on their lives ca. 2024 will surely be among the least impressive. Picture them now, hunched over their little laminate ...

Massive stone structures, mysterious colossi, and ancient waterways point to a sophisticated culture that may have thrived long before history officially began.

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Wealth inequality began shaping human societies more than 10,000 years ago, long before the rise of ancient empires or the invention of writing. That's according to a new study that challenges ...

THE most recent contribution of M. R. Vaufrey to discussion of a group of chronological and cultural problems in the archaeology of North Africa, of which an account appears in another column of this ...

Introduction -- A fragile start -- The rise of farming -- The rise and fall of civilizations -- Climate and civilizations of the Middle Ages -- The Little Ice Age -- Humans take over -- The future is ...

v. 1. Physical anthropology, linguistics, and archeology -- v. 2. Cultural anthropology Volume I. Physical anthropology, linguistics, and archeology -- 1. The subject matter of anthropology / Alfred L ...

Findings show that the Copper Age societies in the ‘Dasht-e Zohreh’ around 6,000 years ago were not only on par with, but also more advanced than Mesopotamia in some innovations, including brickmaking ...