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 ...

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.

In “The Invention of Prehistory,” the historian Stefanos Geroulanos argues that many of our theories about our remote ancestors tell us more about us than them. By Jennifer Szalai When you purchase an ...

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 of ...

DURING the last two decades great progress has been made in our knowledge of prehistoric man, especially by discoveries in the caves of France and Spain. Most of the results are published in technical ...

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 ...

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 ...