Prehistory

The Birth of Civilization

Sir Julian Huxley examines the debates and mysteries that surround humanity's earliest moves towards mass society.

Acting like Neanderthals

The Neanderthals failed to adapt to climate change and may have died out in as little as a thousand years. Are we making the same mistakes, asks Mike Williams.

Bringing the Sky Down to Earth

Anthony Aveni explains how the people planning great monuments and cities, many millennia and thousands of miles apart, so often sought the same inspiration – alignments with the heavens.

Breaking the Time Barrier

Clive Gamble revisits the moment at which archaeologists realized that human prehistory was far longer than biblical scholars had imagined; and links this to today’s debates about the antiquity of the human mind with its capacity for self-aware thought.   

The Last Big Meltdown

Our prehistoric ancestors survived rapid climate change and rising temperatures as extreme as those we face today, says Kate Prendergast. What can they tell us about global warming?

Primary for Prehistory

Robin Place advocates a key role for prehistory in capturing interest for things historical in school.

Nuclear Prehistory

An examination of an archaeological site in the Lincolnshire village of Fulbeck, by Dymphana Byrne.