Christopher Moore's History News

A stop on the Kelp Highway? Smithsonian Magazine for January offers "The Fertile Shore," which starts with archaeologists ...

Know how these differ from Clovis points?  Well, they do. Recent data from an archaeological site in Idaho sets out new evidence for a ...

Paleontological star John Hawks muses here on recent discoveries of what is might be a previously unknown human or hominin species. Found ...

Under the heading of cool academic conferences, I note (courtesy of H-Canada ) next month's  Knekk Tepaw , a two-day exploration at ...

The New York Times reports on a new linguistic analysis positing that all the Indo-European languages from Hindi and Farsi to French and ...

First evidence that "Clovis" people, the first confirmed human inhabitants of North America (only some 13,000 years ago) hunted an...

The idea that human cultural development took off a hundred thousand years or so after the emergence of modern humans, cause you couldn'...

1.. British historian John Burrows's history of history-writing, A History of Histories , reviewed here . 2. I only know Daniel Walker H...

"During the stormiest weather, when the sea thrashes the steep coastline of southern England, demolishing entire limestone cliffs, Chri...

Peter L. Storck is an archaeologist at the Royal Ontario Museum. I missed his Journey to the Ice Age when it appeared in 2004 (from UBC Pre...

CBC Television tonight reports an archaeological site on the Yukon-Alaska border, where Norm Easton of Yukon College and others are reportin...

Out there, the book of the week seems to be The World Without Us , a consideration of how the world would evolve if the plague of human bein...

I find I'm still ... depressed, almost, over the news that Otzi, the 5000 years dead "Ice Man" whose body was found in a glaci...

Archaeologists of North American paleo-history hardly find a Clovis point, it sometimes seems, unless it is embedded in the mammoth bone som...