Everywhere around us are echoes of the past. Those echoes define the boundaries of states and countr
Peasants and common folk were oppressed by their social superiors, but they didn't accept that as a
What were Neanderthals really like? Our closest relatives shared an incredible amount in common with
Five thousand years ago, a man died more than 10,000 feet high in the Alps of northern Italy. He had
Today, everywhere from Bengal to British Columbia, some 3.2 billion people speak an Indo-European la
The first farmers of Europe and their descendants persisted for thousands of years. In the Neolithic
When we think of the medieval world, our minds usually turn to knights, royalty, and clergy. But the
How do we know what we know about the deep past? What languages did people speak in prehistory? And
It didn't take long for the first pioneering farmers of Europe to establish mature and stable societ
Farming came into existence in the Fertile Crescent, but it didn't stay there. By 5000 BC, agricultu
The domestication of animals has transformed the way that people eat, clothe themselves, and live ov
The domestication of plants and animals has remade the way that people feed themselves, organize the
For most of Homo sapiens' time out of Africa, we lived in a world defined by ice. But by around 20,0
Professor John Hawks of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, one of the world's best communicators o
Our understanding of the past is constantly in flux, and there's no field where that's clearer than
The Americas were the last continents Homo sapiens reached. Why did it take so long for people to en
Twenty thousand years ago, the world was locked in ice. The glaciers advanced from the poles and mou
Ancient DNA is the key that's unlocking the deep history of humanity, allowing us to answer question
Until very recently, Homo sapiens - our species - was only one of several varieties of hum
Welcome to a new season of Tides of History! Over the next year, we'll be traveling from the very or
How do we tell when one period ends and another begins? What are the fundamental characteristics of
