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.

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

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

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In The Invention of Prehistory: Empire, Violence, and Our Obsession With Human Origins, the intellectual historian Stefanos Geroulanos, who teaches at NYU, offers a compendium of the ideas ...

Some experts have tried to make the work more accessible, but Deborah Barsky’s new book, Human Prehistory: Exploring the Past to Understand the Future (Cambridge University Press, 2022), is one ...

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