Most Read This Week In Prehistory

Prehistory is the period before recorded history, that is, before the development of writing systems. Therefore, prehistory ends at different times in different regions, depending on when writing developed in that region. Much of what we know about prehistory comes from the study of archaeology.

See also prehistoric (fiction).
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Most Read This Week Tagged "Prehistory"

Circle of Days
Proto: How One Ancient Language Went Global
The Forbidden (The Ancestors Saga, #1)
Otherlands: A Journey Through Earth's Extinct Worlds
Stalactite & Stalagmite: A Big Tale from a Little Cave
Kindred: Neanderthal Life, Love, Death and Art
A (Very) Short History of Life on Earth: 4.6 Billion Years in 12 Pithy Chapters
First Steps: How Upright Walking Made Us Human
Buried: An Alternative History of the First Millennium in Britain
The World Before Us: How Science is Revealing a New Story of Our Human Origins
Homo Sapiens Rediscovered: The Scientific Revolution Rewriting Our Origins (The Rediscovered Series)
Origin: A Genetic History of the Americas
Ancestors: A History of Britain in Seven Burials
The Invention of Prehistory: Empire, Violence, and Our Obsession with Human Origins
Locked in Time: Animal Behavior Unearthed in 50 Extraordinary Fossils
The Naked Neanderthal: A New Understanding of the Human Creature
Fossil Men: The Quest for the Oldest Skeleton and the Origins of Humankind
Tuki: Fight for Fire
The Pleistocene Era: The History of the Ice Age and the Dawn of Modern Humans
A Story of Us: A New Look at Human Evolution
Architecture: From Prehistory to Climate Emergency (Pelican Books)
The Language Puzzle: Piecing Together the Six-Million-Year Story of How Words Evolved
How Religion Evolved: And Why It Endures
Clan
The Lost World of the Dinosaurs: Uncovering the Secrets of the Prehistoric Age
Dinopedia: A Brief Compendium of Dinosaur Lore (Pedia Books)
The Indigenous Paleolithic of the Western Hemisphere
Big Meg: The Story of the Largest and Most Mysterious Predator that Ever Lived
Hunted (The Deadlands #1)
Twilight of the Godlings: The Shadowy Beginnings of Britain's Supernatural Beings
Dinosaurs and Other Prehistoric Life (DK Children's Anthologies)
The Other Ancient Civilisations: Decoding Archaeology’s Less Celebrated Cultures (History Gifts, Ancient World History)
Ancestory: The Mystery and Majesty of Ancient Cave Art – An Illustrated Exploration of Prehistoric Art for Children (Ages 4-8)
Bretons and Britons: The Fight for Identity
The Five-Million-Year Odyssey: The Human Journey from Ape to Agriculture
Survival (The Deadlands #3)
Beasts Before Us: The Untold Story of Mammal Origins and Evolution
We Are Human Animals
Mega-Predators of the Past

Andreï Makine
Leroi-Gourhan écrit que, dans l'art des cavernes, signe féminin et blessure sont interchangeables : pour signifier la même idée, l'artiste, le penseur, l'écrivain paléolithique pouvait indifféremment figurer une vulve, une vache transpercée, le sang qui dégoutte d'une flèche. La vulve, le dol, la bête sous le merlin, le sang, sont synonymes ("Corps du roi", 40). ...more
Andreï Makine

By comparison, the dispossession and destruction of Indigenous populations—which the Society, for one, consistently linked to slavery—was largely ignored by the public. For the most part, Britain and the US treated Indigenous peoples as belonging to the past, as active threats to modernity. Above all, they described Natives as “perishing,” as “disappearing.
Stefanos Geroulanos, The Invention of Prehistory: Empire, Violence, and Our Obsession with Human Origins

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