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.

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 ...

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 ...

Submerged prehistory holds insights on the first humans to live in North America. Skip to main content. Search Shop Newsletters Renew Give a Gift Subscribe. i Subscribe Give a Gift Renew.

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 ...

"We are literally changing the story of the prehistory of the Americas," Collins says. "We've got this package of time and space at the Gault Site that is different and distinctive.

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.

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 ...