Millennia of human history have seen many years of scarcity, famine, plague, and war. A new wave of research by historians and scientists singles out one year, however, that was uniquely catastrophic, ...

Humans likely harvested their first flames from wildfire. When they learned to make it themselves, it changed everything.

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An innovative technique used in a study of Neanderthal hearths—places where fires were created—has been described by researchers as a "major" development in archaeology, one that could help shed light ...

To most people, complex technologies separate modern humans from their ancestors who lived in the Stone Age thousands or hundreds of thousands of years ago. In today’s fast-changing world, older ...

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The big thinkers at Aperture showcase unusual inventions that unexpectedly changed human history.

I've been reading the Seamus Heaney translation of "Beowulf." As a young graduate student in English, I thought I might become a medievalist, so I took a course in Old English and read some of ...

Malaria is often considered a tropical disease, but data hidden in historical human remains has shed new light on the parasite's world travels. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn ...

In “The Dawn of Everything,” the anthropologist David Graeber and the archaeologist David Wengrow aim to rewrite the story of our shared past — and future. By Jennifer Schuessler One August night in ...

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