Reconstruction of a village showing the various activities that punctuated the lives of men and women in the Neolithic period • AKG-IMAGES / ULLSTEIN BILD At the dawn of the VIe millennium BC. 8,000 years ago, Europe turned a definitive page in its history, that of prehistory and the time of hun
Bone ornaments and tools from the Bacho Kiro cave in Bulgaria dating back 45,000 years • ROSEN SPASOV PRESS OFFICE Conditions for the arrival of Homo sapiens in Europe remain very little known, but a single tooth can write part of history. The presence of our direct ancestors on the continent h
Anatomical location of “Cro-Magnon 5” bones. Formerly considered as belonging to a single newborn, they could correspond to four different babies • CNRS/INRAP In the Dordogne, the Cro-Magnon rock shelter, located in the town of Les Eyzies, on the banks of the Vézère, is famous for having given i
270 representations are painted or engraved in the Cosquer cave. Half are animal species, the other half are geometric signs or hands • DRAC PACA / SERVICE PRESSE Because it is under the sea, and therefore not very accessible, the Cosquer cave is less known than those of Lascaux in Dordogne or C
An example of parietal engraving found in the cave, representing a horse • JOSEP MARIA / SERVICE DE PRESSE Catalonia joins the privileged regions of Europe which have superb decorated caves dating from the Paleolithic era. A hundred parietal works - engravings dated 15,000 years, the oldest know
Artists impression of a young woman hunting in the Andes 9,000 years ago. • UC DAVIS IET ACADEMIC TECHNOLOGY SERVICES Prehistoric women only in charge of gathering and confined to the cave to take care of the children and the kitchen? This cliché conveyed by the scholars of the XIXth century had
Panoramic aerial view of the excavation at Clichy-la-Garenne • INRAP/SERVICE DE PRESSE Neanderthal man lived in the Paris region and walked the banks of the Seine during the Middle Paleolithic (between 350,000 and 45,000 years ago). For the first time since the end of the 19th century, an excava
The chewing gum was obtained from birch bark • THEIS JENSEN / UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN / PRESS SERVICE Its amazing what a piece of birch chewed 5,700 years ago can reveal! This prehistoric chewing gum was discovered during archaeological excavations on the island of Lolland, in southern Denmark,
The Losa nuraghe, near the town of Abbasanta in central western Sardinia, is one of the most important and best preserved sites of the nuragic culture • ISTOCK Scattered throughout Sardinia stand the remains of some 7,000 nuraghes, integrated with the elements and vegetation of the island. These
A Neanderthal man cuts a point intended for hunting (reconstruction) • ISTOCKPHOTO What level of culture and technology could the Neanderthals have reached if they had not disappeared? This question, which comes under “fictional prehistory”, is nevertheless one of those posed by scientists who s
Entrance to the South African cave where the find was made • ASHLEY KRUGER/MEDIA SERVICE It was believed that prehistoric people ate meat, fruits and oilseeds. However, here is South Africa inviting us to review the famous “Paleolithic diet”, after the discovery of a food that we thought was ban
In Tultepec, the trap discovered by archaeologists contained the remains of 14 mammoths. • AFP A mammoth trap in Mexico! It must have required a certain logistics which obviously worked, since researchers unearthed 800 bones there belonging to 14 of these giant animals. It is, according to them,
General view of the Saint-Bélec slab • INRAP/SERVICE DE PRESSE An engraved slab can take on the appearance of a rebus that is difficult to decipher, but that of Saint-Bélec will have found its “Champollion” a century after its discovery in 1900! His study has just revealed that it represents a m
Fossils of a piece of skull and jawbone discovered in 2021 near Ramla, Israel • TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY / AFP Two recently discovered fossils claim the title of a new species of Homo and a close kinship with modern man. And spark debate. The first was unearthed in Israel, as part of the extension of
Archaeological excavations at the site of the discovery, in July 2021 • E. TRÉBUCHET / PRESS SERVICE Jewels, weapons, vases, sharp tools... In total, hundreds of intact bronze objects have been found in the south of Allier after being buried for nearly 3,000 years. They represent one of the rich
Representation of a bison in the Spanish cave of Altamira • ISTOCKPHOTO It was too incredible to be true:“The Altamira painters technique includes the following elements:linear perspective, aerial perspective, colors diluted in water or grease, brush. Could Paleolithic people have painted these
Engraved horse heads from Plougastel-Daoulas, in Finistère, and dated around 14,500 years old • NICOLAS NAUDINOT/ CAMILLE BOURDIER / CEPAM / TRACES / PLOS ONE / CNRS PHOTOTHEQUE A magnificent aurochs head surrounded by rays, a mixture of figurative and abstract styles:this engraving made 14,000
Sunset and panoramic view of the megalithic monument of Stonehenge, UK • ISTOCK Sources of legends and fantasies, the megaliths occupy a discreet but deaf place at the heart of the imagination of European prehistory:the adventures of Asterix and Obelix testify to this, with humor and derision, w
In the 15thth century, the competition to find the route to India and its legendary riches by bypassing the Arab and Ottoman presence intensified. However, in 1493, the triumphant return of Christopher Columbus did not bode well for Portugal, which had invested heavily in the search for a passage th
At the end of the 15thth century, maritime explorations and discoveries are multiplying in Africa, and the world is turned towards the discovery of a fantasy Asia. Christophe Colomb, a Genoese navigator, was influenced by Ptolemys Geography:the Earth being round, he thought he could reach the Indies
The list of inventions and discoveries made by man begins with fire and the wheel. Horseback is nowhere to be found in this list, while horseback has played as important a role in creating the world as fire and the wheel. The Roman Empire was also built not only on fire and wheel, but also on horseb
On November 16, 1532, the Inca Emperor Atahualpa was captured in the middle of his retinue by a small group of Spaniards led by Francisco Pizarro . This daring attack, coupled with a terrible massacre, would sound the death knell of the Inca Empire and begin its conquest by the Spaniards. However, t
Mao Zedong he was one of the greats of China in the 20th century. He became a communist during his youth and joined the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in the 1920s. . He managed to take over the power of China in 1949, with the victory over the nationalists.Mao Zedong was one of the most powerful fig
After the partition, once again the extremist leaders started dominating the Congress. They did not believe in the policy of application and solicitation and also did not consider the policy of cooperating with the British Empire by Indians. He wanted Swarajya for the Indians and felt the need of a