Rice, reported to be over 3,500-years-old was recently unearthed in Guam, making it the earliest known evidence of rice in ...

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.

Maya Jasanoff reviews “The Invention of Prehistory: Empire, Violence, and Our Obsession with Human Origins,” by Stefanos Geroulanos.

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 ...

Central European prehistory was highly dynamic Frequent cultural, genetic, and social change epitomises the history of central Europe from the Stone Age to the Early Bronze Age Date: ...

Prehistory was not, in short, invented with Rousseau’s more positive twist on the state of nature. Moreover, Europeans didn’t need prehistory to dispossess Native Americans. Beyond arguments based on ...

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 ...