As its title suggests, the exhibit Prehistory: A Modern Enigma emphasises its own mysteries and contradictions. Anonymous artefacts borrowed from French archaeological museums sit alongside works of ...

"Originally published in the United Kingdom in 2007 by Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London"- -T.p. verso. Part I: The discovery of prehistory -- The idea of prehistory -- Mapping the human past: Prehistory ...

How did humanity emerge? Theories of the deep past have shaped our history and present, says The Invention of Prehistory: Empire, Violence and Our Obsession with Human Origins by Stefanos Geroulanos.

Newly sequenced ancient genomes from Yunnan, China, have shed new light on human prehistory in East Asia. In a study published in Science, a research team led by Prof. Fu Qiaomei at the Institute of ...

Researchers hail ‘world-class discovery’ that suggests cave bears may have lived farther south than thought Researchers exploring a cave system in south-east Spain have discovered a huge cavern, ...

Darren Curnoe receives funding from the Australian Research Council. Political and economic pundits constantly remind us that this is the ‘Asian Century’, and it’s shaping up to be that way also for ...

Barnabas Calder’s engaging study of construction and its environmental impact is at its best when it doesn’t dwell on ancient masterpieces Consider the Georgian terrace, now a widely admired model of ...

IT is not surprising that Mr. Burkitt's treatise on prehistory should so soon have reached a second edition. It is a unique summary of the handicraft and art of the successive races of Palaeolithic ...