According to Korea's creation story, the nation was founded by a legendary man named Dangun in the year 2333 B.C., who was the son of a bear that became human by eating garlic for 100 days. Despite ...

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 ...

DURING the past thirty years Dr. MacCurdy has paid frequent visits to the Old World to study on the spot the various discoveries of prehistoric man and his handiwork. For some time he has also ...

"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.

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 ...

Recent archaeogenetic studies have shown that human movements like migrations and expansions played a major role in driving the spread of cultures and genes in ancient Europe. However, it is only now ...

"A Prehistory of South America is an overview of the ancient and historic native cultures of the entire continent of South America based on the most recent archaeological investigations. For more than ...

In this complex, closely argued text, best suited to archaeology professionals, field giant Renfrew sets forth quite a task, to sum up the progress of prehistoric archaeology thus far and then explore ...