In the American-Statesman archives we found the previous story on the treasures buried beneath Zilker Park in Austin ...

If pressed, most Kansans would guess the Kansa Indians were the state’s first farmers and corn was their first crop. And they’d be wrong. “There were people farming here a thousand years ...

Some movies are about history, but others deal with matters that predate history. There’s something fascinating about prehistoric times, and it gets even more intriguing when you bring those ...

Prehistoric medicine refers to medicine before humans were are to read and write. It covers a vast period, which varies according to regions and cultures. Anthropologists, people who study the ...

How one photographer helped give birth to the National Park Service By Lily Rothman There is no shortage of things to see in America’s national parks. Whether the view is of dappled Acadia or ...

The earliest evidence of human beings in Wales dates from about 225,000 BC, the date given to human teeth found in Pontnewydd Cave in the Elwy Valley in Denbighshire. A series of Ice Ages meant ...

The beginning of the Bronze Age in Britain can be put around 2,000 BC. Although not certain, it is generally thought that the new bronze tools and weapons identified with this age were brought ...

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