In 1885, the Revised Version of the Old Testament of the King James Bible appeared, a landmark in the history of English scripture. Among other changes, its editors discreetly removed from the margins ...

As its title suggests, the exhibit Prehistory: A Modern Enigma emphasises its own mysteries and contradictions. Anonymous artefacts borrowed from French archaeological museums sit alongside works of ...

The question isn’t whether such tales are correct. Perhaps the clearest picture they produce is that our origins are complex enough that we can pick just about any guiding idea and find enough ...

In the summer of 1856, laborers at a limestone quarry near Düsseldorf were clearing mud and chert out of a cave when they turned up a fossilized skull. It was long and elliptical, with wide sinuses ...

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 Geroulanos, ...

NYU historian Geroulanos (The Human Body in the Age of Catastrophe) offers an incisive and captivating reassessment of prehistory. Tracing how modern notions of humanity’s origins have often mixed ...

"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.

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 ...

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 ...