Black Forest in Northern Europe: the early European environment had a lot of forests like this one. Not so different from Central Asia When people first arrived in northern Europe [...]
Abrigo del Ciervo, Spain, ca. 6000 BC: Early European economy Hunting and gathering The first people in Europe lived by hunting and gathering; they probably had both dogs and bows [...]
Iron Age art: Villanovan cremation urn with helmet on top (ca. 900 BC) Is it okay to represent people? In the beginning of the Iron Age, about 1000 BC, people [...]
Stone Age art in Northern Europe: A herd of horses (Chauvet cave, France, ca. 30,000 BC) Cave paintings The first modern humans who arrived in Northern Europe, around 45,000 BC, [...]
Valmonica, Italy (ca. 2000 BC?) Were artists still doing rock art? Yes! Bronze Age artists kept on carving rock art all across Europe, using it to show the new horses [...]
Iron Age buildings: a Roman bath building in Trier, in southern Germany, about 300 AD Roman buildings in northern Europe By the time of the Roman Empire, about 1 AD, [...]
Remains of a wooden temple (Ukraine, ca. 4000 BC) When modern humans first arrived in Europe from Central Asia about 45,000 BC, they weren't building houses yet, and they lived [...]
Bronze Age architecture: Reconstruction of lake house (Pfahlbau Museum Unteruhldingen on Lake Constance, Germany, ca. 3000 BC) Bigger and better houses in the Bronze Age As the people of Europe [...]
The Alps Where are the Alps? The Alps are a long row of mountains dividing southern Europe from northern Europe. France and Germany are on one side of the Alps, [...]
Women swimming in the Seljuk kingdom (1494 AD) The fall of the Roman Empire and the Sassanian Empire in the 500s AD doesn't seem to have made much difference to [...]
