Bones of a mastodon, a now-extinct ancestor of the elephant, suggest that humans arrived in America 100,000 years earlier than previously thought. This pebble unearthed in San Diego (California) could have been used by humans to break mastodon bones, 130,000 years ago. Human presence on the Amer
New demographic models and analyzes confirm for the first time that the city of Angkor, in the current Kingdom of Cambodia, was in the 13th century, at its height, one of the largest inhabited complexes in the world. Daily life in the heart of the city of Angkor, in the 12th century. It is enoug
Like other past societies, the Mesoamericans developed an eminent warrior character, with groups of armed men who fought to defend or expand the domains of their parents. Thanks to the work of historians, we can study the different weapon systems of the Mesoamerican peoples before the arrival of the
The French commune of Carnac, in the Morbihan department on the northwestern coast of France, is famous for its alignments of menhirs, accounting for almost 3,000 of these megaliths that were raised during the Neolithic between 6,000 and 2,000 BC. But the area is also home to another prehistoric st