Out of their 300,000 years of existence, Homo sapiens have spend the majority of their time in Africa, the undisputable ...

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.

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 ...

That extended era soon got a name: “prehistory,” describing the period before humans recorded their existence in writing. Since the Neanderthal discovery, the start date for human prehistory ...

Check out more from this issue and find your next story to read. In The Invention of Prehistory: Empire, Violence, and Our Obsession With Human Origins, the intellectual historian Stefanos ...

The National Museum of Prehistory from Taiwan is inviting the public to its series of cultural exchange programs in Guam, ...

This year, the event was organized around women in prehistory, featuring lectures and an analysis of one of their most iconic ...