There is evidence of the presence of indigenous peoples in Mar Chiquita before the arrival of the Spanish conquerors, which may go as far in time as the first waves of Paleoamerican humans coming to South America over 10,000 years ago, although this needs confirmation. Instead, the presence ...
In this first representative investigation on the mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) variation of East Timor (Timor-Leste) population including >300 individuals, we put special emphasis on the reconstruction of the initial settlement, in particular on the previously poorly resolved haplogroup P1, an indigenous ...
Distinct, partly competing, “waves” have been proposed to explain human migration in(to) today’s Island Southeast Asia and Australia based on genetic (and other) evidence. The paucity of high quality and high resolution data has impeded insights so fa
South Africa has provided a home for human settlement since very early times. The presence of homo sapiens goes back perhaps 125,000 years. These 'first South Africans', as Inskeep calls them, were followed much later by hand-tool makers of the Middle Stone Age, probably 40,000 years ago...
The Eastern Front: A History of the First World War by Nick Lloyd The Eastern Front is the second book in British military historian Nick Lloyd's trilogy about the First World War (the first book was about the Western Front). The book is around 500 pages long but it's highly readable...
Image by Ad Meskens: Calendar in the temple of Kom Ombo showing the hieroglyphics for the days of the fourth month of the harvest and the first day of the first month of the flood. The three periods determined by the rise and fall of the Nile formed the year, and they occurred regularl...
3.8 billion Emergence of organisms. Beginning of biology. 6 million Last common grandmother of humans and chimpanzees. 2.5 million Evolution of the genus Homo in Africa. First stone tools. 2 million Humans spread from Africa to Eurasia. Evolution of different human species. 500,000 Neanderth...
The appearance of Slavs in East-Central Europe has been the subject of an over 200-year debate driven by two conflicting hypotheses. The first assumes that Slavs came to the territory of contemporary Poland no earlier than the sixth century CE; the secon
FACT: Magna Carta originated as an unsuccessful attempt to achieve peace between royalist and rebel factions in 1215, as part of the events leading to the outbreak of the First Barons’ War. A Baron is a wealthy landowner; most of European history is simply oligarchies versus aristocracy. The...
The prehistory of Australia is a term which may be used to describe the period of approximately 41,000-46,000 years (or up to 68,000 years, as is contended by some studies) between the first human habitation of the Australian continent and the first known sighting of Australia by Europeans...