Discover how genetic data supports archeological evidence that some hunter-gatherers who originated in Europe ‘held out’ on ...

Philip Marsden has made his home in Cornwall, an improbable hotspot for mineral wealth. “In the early nineteenth century, ...

Zero is one of a number of concepts that have shaped the course of the world so fundamentally that we would not recognize ...

Image by Julian Puig Guevara. The study suggests that the Casarabe culture represents an example of a “Neolithic Revolution” in the Amazon, with an economy based on grain production that ...

Copper stands at the center of many of humanity’s greatest modern challenges as a critical mineral needed to power renewable energy and electric vehicles. This role is nothing new for copper—for ...

The Neolithic agricultural revolution saw the standardization of land, allotted to community members in lots sufficient to support their families, with proportional obligations attached—obliging ...

Although Neolithic Britain itself takes up less than half the book, there is nevertheless ample space to tackle it in detail. Miles brings together all the major discoveries in excavation and dating ...

This text is adapted from Michael Hudson’s foreword to At the Origins of Politics by Giorgio Buccellati, and this excerpt was produced by Human ...