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Peru’s 3,500-year-old lost city could change America’s prehistory - Ancient city likely served as trading hub connecting ...
The concept of “prehistory” was born, a kind of placeholder for the indefinite period preceding the dawn of human civilization. From its very inception, prehistory was a half-cocked idea.
One look at the bulging buttocks of the squat female figurine and British Archaeologist James Mellaart recognized a Stone Age fertility symbol; the dig he was starting on a plain in southern ...
Some experts have tried to make the work more accessible, but Deborah Barsky’s new book, Human Prehistory: Exploring the Past to Understand the Future (Cambridge University Press, 2022), is one ...
In The Invention of Prehistory: Empire, Violence, and Our Obsession With Human Origins, the intellectual historian Stefanos Geroulanos, who teaches at NYU, offers a compendium of the ideas ...
The world’s oldest wooden sculpture is reshaping prehistory. A study dates Russia’s Shigir Idol 900 years earlier than believed, making it over 10,000 years old and the only Stone Age wooden ...
Greenhouse’s words are taken from “Reversing Roe,” a 2018 documentary on the prehistory and aftermath of the Supreme Court decision, available on Netflix. Advertisement.