The route they discovered didn’t just track migration — it revealed pockets of resistance to the Neolithic revolution, as well as signs of sea-faring derring-do. During that period, starting around 12 ...

Instead of presenting history as a fragmented series of dates and events, the human journey framework weaves these elements into a story of resilience and transformation. It invites students to see ...

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 ...

Archaeological evidence shows that by 8000 B.C., Neolithic humans began incorporating ... colonial copper sources during the Industrial Revolution, control of the supply chain has often determined ...

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 ...

At the Neolithic monument of Newgrange ... Aristotle said that "the revolution of the outermost sphere of the heavens" should be the reference for measuring time. The Greek philosopher believed ...

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 their ...