There are two factors that have always influenced human history: the availability of food and the proximity of water. Water is not only vital for sustaining life, it has served as barriers to protect isolated populations and as roadways for ….
Social creatures like us find ways to share tasks that perpetuate their communities. Cockroaches are not social even though they live together because they can scatter to the four winds and as long as they find mates they will survive. ….
Historians have long suspected that there was a 1200-year cycle in the rise and fall of cultures around the world. Although this blog has focused mainly on the Middle East and Europe, the 1200-year cycle has been noted in the ….
If you study Viking history you have been told that the Vikings were the first people to settle the Faroe Islands. Now scientists have found evidence of an earlier culture that predates the Vikings’ arrival by as much as 3-500 ….
8,000 years ago (Circa. 6,000 BCE) one or more groups of farmers left Asia Minor and colonized what is now Greece. We don’t yet know how they arrived there or why they left their homes but they probably walked across ….
Our picture of the ancient world co-inhabited by Homo sapiens, Homo neanderthalensis, and Homo denisova is constantly changing as new information emerges from scattered scientific studies. The origins of modern humanity were once thought to be very clear: supposedly our ….
You won’t find many historians pointing to Kazakhstan as an important region in human history but closer inspection of prehistoric and historical peoples who lived in the area reveals some interesting patterns. For a long time anthropologists believed Kazakhstan might ….
According to recent summations of MesoAmerican Calendar Theory there is no “great cycle” in the Mayan calendar. So all the hype leading up to December 21, 2012 essentially wasted a great deal of energy among the ignorant, the profane, and ….