History Forums - Archaeology and Prehistory Forum and Anthropology Forum

The prehistoric period of human experience harbors many mysteries we only just becoming aware of. So much time has passed since our ancestors lived in small, scattered villages we no longer have even vague tribal memories of those times. The languages were different, there were no national boundaries, and there were few luxuries.

The prehistoric world is intensely studied by anthropologists, archaeologists, geologists, chemists, biologists, and scientists whose disciplines have only existed for a few years. DNA studies allow us to retrace the footsteps taken by our ancestors over the course of generations.

We reconstruct their houses, study their art, and strive to imagine how the world may have looked to them. But we cannot truly understand what they thought when they looked up into the sky, when they watched their neighbors from atop the hills, or why they chose to leave their homes and chart paths into the unknown expanses of the wildernesses around them.

Archaeology and Prehistory Forum and Anthropology Forum

Archaeology and Prehistory: Why civilization arose in the Holocene instead of the Eemian epochs

Archaeology and Prehistory: cryptids

Archaeology and Prehistory: Mediterranean sea travel began more than 100K BCE

Archaeology and Prehistory: Modern stone age peoples on video

Archaeology and Prehistory: Last Member of Tribe 65000 Years Old Dies, a Preneolithic Language Now Extinct

Archaeology and Prehistory: I'm here for the beer!

Archaeology and Prehistory: Hamoukar - the earliest city destroyed by war (Circa. 3500 BCE)

Archaeology and Prehistory: Ancient European farm boys attracted wandering girls

Archaeology and Prehistory: Human diet included wild cereals 100,000 years ago

Archaeology and Prehistory: Lunch?

Archaeology and Prehistory: Cuno redux

Archaeology and Prehistory: Got to see the Dead Sea Scrolls!

Archaeology and Prehistory: Archaeologists suggest human meat-sharing changed 200,000 years ago

Archaeology and Prehistory: the majority of archeology school are in christian schools

Archaeology and Prehistory: small dinosaur hibernated