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General prehistory

This replica painting from the Cave of Altamira in northern Spain recreates some of the remarkable Upper Palaeolithic images created by early humans between 35,000 and 14,000 years ago. Celebrated for their vivid depictions of animals and handprints, Altamira’s cave paintings are among the earliest known examples of human artistic expression.

General prehistory

Think men were always the hunters? Stone Age women took down mammoths too – and that's not all

Illustration of Neolithic druids performing a ceremony at the Stonehenge stone circle.

General prehistory

A Bronze Age Brexit: why did these Britons mysteriously cut themselves off from Europe?

The Beaker People: everything you wanted to know.

The Assyrians: everything you wanted to know.

Ancient Mesopotamia: everything you wanted to know.

Video podcastPrehistoric stone circles: everything you want to know.

Prehistoric stone circles: everything you want to know.

A Neanderthal skull and some of the tools used by the Neanderthals. (Photo by Getty Images)

General prehistory

Your guide to Neanderthals, plus 7 fascinating facts

A model of the face of a Neanderthal woman in front of art depicting a prehistoric environment

General prehistory

When and why did Neanderthals go extinct? Explaining the loss of humanity's ancient siblings

VideoSlavery and abolition.

Cave painting showing animals being hunted.

General prehistory

Video5 key things to know about prehistoric cave art

Prehistoric cave art: everything you want to know.

The Eridge Hunt, Boxing Day 1952

A brief history of Boxing Day

Stonehenge: everything you wanted to know (part two).

General prehistory

Explore8 little-known prehistoric sites in Britain

Your guide to Britain’s prehistoric stone circles.

A photo of Stonehenge with plains in the background

General prehistory

Secrets of StonehengeWhen & how was it built?

Stonehenge: everything you wanted to know (part one).

Tourists at Stonehenge. We have no better idea today than 200 years ago what the people who erected these sarsens truly believed. (Getty Images)

Prehistoric religion: a pagan riddle we will never solve?.

Inside the prehistoric mind.

Alice Roberts, author of Ancestors: A Prehistory of Britain in Seven Burials

Alice Roberts“Graves are like time capsules – little microcosms of prehistoric culture".

Unearthing Britain’s prehistoric secrets.

Bretons, Britons, Celts & King Arthur.

Zdeněk Burian’s painting from 1952 offers a sympathetic portrayal of Neanderthals practising cannibalism. Self-assurance, even contentment, emanate from “It appears as a calm response to death, rather than murderous carnage,” writes Rebecca Wragg Sykes. (Photo by Time Life Pictures/Mansell/The LIFE Picture Collection via Getty Images)

Neanderthal in the mirror: our changing perceptions of these ancient humans.

A statue of Tollund Man, a bog body from the Iron Age. (Photo by Getty Images)

General prehistory

Q&AWhat are bog bodies?

Aerial view reconstruction drawing of Maiden Castle

A brief guide to the British Iron Age

Head and shoulders of a sculpted model of a female Neanderthal

The Neanderthals: everything you wanted to know.

An 18th-century marble relief depicting Julius Caesar invading Britain by John Deare, a British neo-classical sculptor. (Photo by: Universal History Archive/UIG via Getty Images)

Geoffrey of Monmouth: the lost voice of ancient Britain.

Newgrange Passage Tombs, Boyne Valley, County Meath, Ireland. (Photo by Hoberman Collection/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

BlogMedieval(ish) matters #9: Do early medieval Irish texts shed light on prehistoric incest?.

The front facade of the prehistoric chambered tomb of Wayland's Smithy

BlogMedieval(ish) matters #6: Viking military mind games, Anglo-Saxon mind maps, and embroidery before the Bayeux Tapestry.