Sublime

This framework allows us to connect spatial and material aspects of settlements available in the archeological record to social and economic network processes and their products, including a society’s collective capacity to produce private and public goods and its associated division of labor and knowledge.

atavistic

The truth is that they did a lot of important things. In particular, they shaped the world around us to a much larger degree than most people realise. Trekkers visiting the Siberian tundra, the deserts of central Australia and the Amazonian rainforest believe that they have entered pristine landscapes, virtually untouched by human hands. But that’s

Whatever the causes, humanity achieved a measure of “modernity” in the Upper Paleolithic, in terms of language, arts, religion, and other aspects of culture. Human cultures began to flourish. Populations increased, which may have been both a cause and an effect of the cultural changes. Higher population densities may have increased the competitive

The sheer abundance of struck (i.e. worked) Mesolithic flints found at Blick Mead is remarkable and suggests that this was not a briefly occupied, one-off settlement. By 2018, the excavation had revealed a total of 30,608 Mesolithic flints.8 People returned repeatedly to Blick Mead for some four millennia and they must have been aware that groups

As long ago as 1936, the prehistorian V. Gordon Childe wrote a book called Man Makes Himself.

According to the most recent evidence, Homo sapiens may have begun to migrate from Africa as early as 180,000 years ago, or perhaps even earlier, reaching sites along the Red Sea and perhaps the Mediterranean coast of modern-day Israel.3 Yet it appears that these first migrant groups outside of Africa did not survive. A second migration, known as