Questions tagged [prehistory]
Prehistory is the span of time of before written history. It often refers to the period of human existence, but in broader terms also includes all time preceding this.
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How and when did gold achieve its cultural role? [duplicate]
How and when did gold achieve its cultural role? My assumption is that before some point there is no evidence for a human affinity for gold— and then there is. What happened?
Do any other species ...
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Why does the Ħaġar Qim seem to have drilled holes / pitted dots on its stoneworks?
Does anyone have any idea or knowledge why Neolithic temple stones have these small holes? They are facing the sun, and the other side of the stones is flat. Smaller object were drilled all over, not ...
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Request for ancient history video lecture references
I just read a page on the Math Stack Exchange linking pages with videos of Math lectures and would love to have a similar thing for History--hopefully that's an acceptable "question" to ask here. ...
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What caused women to lose their access to resources and become a part of men's possessions with the start of the agriculture era?
I'm reading the book SEX AT DAWN: the prehistoric origins of modern sexuality, the book suggests that in prehistoric times, when homo sapiens were just foraging on the earth, the relation between men ...
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What did early humans do with their long hair? [closed]
What did early humans do with their hair? Surely once it got too long it would've become a hindrance, obscuring vision as well as getting caught in plants.
Did they do anything to manage it or not?
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Did iron age Britons still use the "ritual" sites built by their neolithic predecessors?
Pre-Roman sites in Britain get lumped together as "ancient", but in reality they span a good couple of thousand years between the neolithic and the iron age.
That made me wonder whether there was any ...
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How did first humans build tools? [closed]
I'm referring this question in this way and tell me if I'm wrong:
The first humans were just surrounded by: rocks, trees, plants, water, sand, animals, fruits. So how just with hands, mouth, feet ...
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Has anybody a complete list of Obelisks in the World?
I'm interested to see if we can build up a full list of all Obelisks around the world.
It would be great to have the coordinates of each location, so I can mark them on Google Earth.
Yes, I did do a ...
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What is the oldest verifiably correctly translated written work?
How old is the oldest written work where we have translated what is written on it in correctly that is verified?
Sigh. I've tried writing that sentence in a way that is understandable and am having ...
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Why are cave paintings so few and rare? [closed]
Just watched a few documentaries about cave paintings. While I acknowledge the importance of discovery, I can't help but question one simple thing - why are there so few paintings in those caves? ...
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Chinese legendary figures with European appearance [closed]
I've been fascinated by the discovery of the Indo-European origin of the mummies in the Tarim basin. This article says:
The new finds are also forcing a reexamination of old Chinese books
that ...
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Technology and status symbols that predate language [closed]
I remember distinctly reading about peoples and cultures - in, I believe, the Caucasus - that used to knap large flakes of flint into spearheads and would use them (instead of actual tools) as status ...
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Why does the Philippines have little fossil deposits? [closed]
Is there minimal wildlife in the Philippines during pre-history? Why does the Philippines have little amount of fossil deposits? I've known that we have some mammoths that live in the area but what ...
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Does special perception of rhyme by humans indicate importance of poetry in prehistoric era? [closed]
Humans perceive poetry, rhyme and rhythm specifically, it produces some emotions and feelings that prose cannot do.
Does this indicate an evolutionary trait that evolved under extensive use of poetry ...
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Why are there no dogs pictured in paleolithic cave paintings?
It has been described before that the occurence of reindeers is strangely low, while this was the main food source.
But isn't it even stranger for dogs? Recent genetic research suggest that dogs were ...
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