In a groundbreaking discovery that upends prior understandings of ancient Scottish history, archaeologists have unearthed ...

The concept of “prehistory” was born, a kind of placeholder for the indefinite period preceding the dawn of human civilization. From its very inception, prehistory was a half-cocked idea.

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Maya Jasanoff reviews “The Invention of Prehistory: Empire, Violence, and Our Obsession with Human Origins,” by Stefanos Geroulanos.

Check out more from this issue and find your next story to read. In The Invention of Prehistory: Empire, Violence, and Our Obsession With Human Origins, the intellectual historian Stefanos ...

On September 1, 2024, the U.S. Army Cyber Corps turned ten years old. Some may chuckle at the thought of this branch still teetering on the verge of ado ...

A prehistory of MAGA: “Mainstream” conservatives never really purged the fascists Author David Austin Walsh says "respectable" conservatives have tolerated racists and neo-Nazis all along ...

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Long before the battle over Roe vs. Wade, Republicans used to be the champions of abortion rights. What happened?

Discoveries in the fields of human origins, paleoanthropology, cognitive science, and behavioral biology have accelerated in the past few decades. We ...

Submerged prehistory holds insights on the first humans to live in North America ...