Stone Age art of northern Europe
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, [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
Tertiary period: Large animals evolved like moose Dinosaurs become extinct The Tertiary period begins with the catastrophe that killed off the dinosaurs at the end of the Cretaceous Period, about 65 [...]
Obsidian spear point, one of many obsidian tools from New Mexico (National Park Service) Where does obsidian come from? Obsidian is a kind of volcanic glass. It is shiny and [...]
Hunting birds in ancient Egypt During most of the Stone Age, people in Egypt, like people everywhere else in the world, lived by hunting and gathering their food. They traveled [...]
This model of an Egyptian house has more than one room (Louvre Museum, Paris) In the earliest days of the kingdom of Egypt, about 4000-3500 BC, Egypt was still divided [...]
A person gathering honey (Arana Cave, Spain, 8000 BC) What is gathering? Gathering means collecting plants that grow wild for food. Early humans gathered all of their food from the [...]
History of dogs: Footprints of a child walking next to a dog, Chauvet Cave, France, ca. 24,000 BC) Where do dogs come from? Dogs are a kind of wolf. They [...]
Silkworms and silk history Silkworms make silk People make silk from the cocoons of silkworms. Have you ever seen a butterfly cocoon? It is just like that. You have to [...]
Jade dragon-pig from New Stone Age China When did the first people come to China? Early people made it to China about 700,000 years ago. They were Homo Erectus, and [...]