What Was It Like for Our Sapiens Ancestors to Meet and Mix With Cousin Species?

Between 50,000 and 35,000 years ago in Eurasia, the disappearance of hominin species or their biocultural assimilation with anatomically modern humans is one of the biggest questions in prehistory...

Wed, Mar 12, 2025

How Mesopotamia’s Urban and Industrial Revolution Started Politics as We Know It Today

Giorgio Buccellati’s At the Origins of Politics takes readers to the early stages of a process that became the structure of modern life.

Wed, Mar 5, 2025

Are we still primitive? How ancient survival instincts shape modern power struggles

Mon, Feb 17, 2025

How We Distribute Power Will Influence Our Future

As we head into a future shaped by climate change, we must find ways to stabilize societies and reduce conflict. Solutions may lie in the archaeological record.

Fri, Feb 14, 2025

A Hunter’s Hypothesis: Ancient Mammoth-Bone Circles Were Smokehouses

A modern day hunter may shed light on the ancient mammoth-bone circles of Russia, Ukraine and Moldavia with a new hypothesis.

Wed, Feb 12, 2025

How Archaeologists Can Solve the Earth’s ‘Wicked Problems’

Mon, Jan 20, 2025

Archaeology as a Key Tool in Sustainable Land Planning: A Case in Point

Thu, Dec 12, 2024

Digging Up the Roots of Human Culture

What led humans on the unique path of cultural development? And can we do anything useful with newly reconstructed histories of this process?

Mon, Dec 2, 2024

The Hunter-Gatherer Guide to Keeping Society Equal

Tue, Nov 26, 2024

Cities Made Differently: Try Imagining Another Urban Existence

We know from history that there are many ways we can live together—let’s explore the idea.

Mon, Nov 25, 2024

Behind the Spectacle

Evidence shows the gladiatorial games of ancient Rome were much more than entertainment.

Thu, Nov 21, 2024

Why Is Prehistory Inspiring So Many Artists?

What draws us to such a distant and long-gone time? A fruitful relationship has always existed between prehistory and the visual artists who interpret it.

Fri, Oct 25, 2024

The Gates of Rome

Author and scholar Frank Korn relates the story of the major walls and gates of the Eternal City.

Wed, Oct 16, 2024

Socrates: A Few Words

A brief Interview with Dr. Paul Cartledge about the man Socrates.

Wed, Oct 16, 2024

The Surprising Ways Inventions and Ideas Spread in Ancient Prehistory

You can learn a lot about humanity from the first technological revolutions of more than 10,000 years ago.

Tue, Sep 10, 2024

Political Collapse: Lessons From Fallen Empires

The conflictive political culture of the contemporary U.S. presents striking parallels to the conditions preceding civilization collapse of the past.

Wed, Sep 4, 2024

The Olympics: Origins, Events & Modern Reinvention

An interview with Dr. Paul Cartledge.

Thu, Jul 11, 2024

The Architectural and Archaeological Legacy of the Christian Persecution

For contemporary archeologists hoping to come upon the leftovers of the Rome of the Caesars, they must often search beneath the ubiquitous layers of the Rome of the Popes.

Thu, Jul 11, 2024

The Milpa Cycle

The way the ancient Maya used their forest environment was key to their development and prosperity as a civilization, and, contrary to the traditional or conventional conceptions about the...

Thu, Jul 11, 2024

How Prehistoric Humans Discovered Fire Making

Wed, May 29, 2024