A new book reinstates animals as proper subjects of historical inquiry and offers pioneering insights into what animal ...

New research reveals how human DNA preserves the story of language contact, showing when and where languages converged, ...

Introduction: Ingredients of the past -- Part 1: Edible Foundations Of Civilization -- 1: Invention of farming -- 2: Roots of modernity -- Part 2: Food And Social Structure -- 3: Food, wealth, and ...

The world of early medieval Europe is sometimes hard to grasp for 21st-century Americans. The fog of the “dark ages” still lingers, casting the period as a fundamentally unknowable time, a period of ...