In caves, on lakes and on the land

Too often, we make mistakes and assume that people in the Palaeolithic used caves as settlements – this assumption contains two basic misapprehensions. First of all, people in...

Documented in the first half of the 19th century, the palafittes, settlements on platforms erected in shallow waters of New Guinea, were soon discovered in Alpine lakes. The...

So close but also so far was life in a prehistoric village. Reconstructions presented an almost familiar architecture and the village was roamed by animals looking so average....

Today archaeology is not only a science of artefacts and landscapes – it is the proper way to understand and to promote the cultural achievements of our predecessors....