Time Period Index (Prehistoric)

The pathways toward early civilization and complex...

Homo sapiens ('wise man'), or modern humans, are the only species of human still around today. Despite having invented countless...

The First Agricultural Revolution, beginning c. 12-20,000 years ago, was characterized by the emergence of different...

Skara Brae is a Neolithic Age site, consisting of ten stone structures, near the Bay of Skaill, Orkney, Scotland. Today the village...

Neanderthals are an extinct group of fossil humans that appeared in Western Eurasia in the mid-Middle Pleistocene and shared the stage...

Göbekli Tepe is the world's oldest example of monumental architecture; a 'temple' built at the end of the...