4 stories tagged prehistory, newest first.
104 points by janandonly | 48 comments
Archaeology News article reporting the discovery of a large Iron Age salt-mining chamber complex, at least 300 meters long, beneath Hallstatt, Austria.
139 points by Hooke | 55 comments
Smithsonian magazine article on how archaeologists reconstruct perishable Stone Age fiber technologies like rope, thread and twine from the traces they left.
77 points by pepys | 78 comments
History Today review of Peter Sahlins' book 'Neanderthals Among Us: The Making of a Prehistoric Human'.
391 points by elsewhen | 384 comments
A Substack essay by Tove K on Wood From Eden arguing why human societies developed so little over 300,000 years, linking stagnation to violence.