You are here: Homepage Tag prehistory and early history Articles Antony Gormley: CAVE, 1986, Lead plaster, 195 x 56 x 33 cm Photo: Stephen White Life underground | Contemporary art “Ancient forces are at work” The British sculptor Antony Gormley has been exploring caves since childhood. A conversation about fantasy, fears and the traces of our ancestors that he has encountered underground Interview with Antony Gormley 01/07/2022 At a dig site in Zhucheng, palaeontologists managed to reassemble the bones of several tyrannosaurs Photo: Xinhua / Eyevine / laif Under the ground | China Welcome to Cretaceous Park There have been more dinosaur bones excavated in Zhucheng, China, than at almost any other location in the world. But it all started with a search for something completely different By Li Dawei 01/07/2022 A collage of hand paintings in the “Cave of Hands” in Patagonia, dating back to between 13,000 and 9,000 years ago. Today historians can tell the gender of the people who made them Photo: Hubert Stadler / Corbis / Getty Images Books | Prehistory The hands of women Were gender relations hierarchical among prehistoric humans? Marylene Patou-Mathis has evidence to disprove this theory By Christina von Braun 01/07/2022
Antony Gormley: CAVE, 1986, Lead plaster, 195 x 56 x 33 cm Photo: Stephen White Life underground | Contemporary art “Ancient forces are at work” The British sculptor Antony Gormley has been exploring caves since childhood. A conversation about fantasy, fears and the traces of our ancestors that he has encountered underground Interview with Antony Gormley 01/07/2022
At a dig site in Zhucheng, palaeontologists managed to reassemble the bones of several tyrannosaurs Photo: Xinhua / Eyevine / laif Under the ground | China Welcome to Cretaceous Park There have been more dinosaur bones excavated in Zhucheng, China, than at almost any other location in the world. But it all started with a search for something completely different By Li Dawei 01/07/2022
A collage of hand paintings in the “Cave of Hands” in Patagonia, dating back to between 13,000 and 9,000 years ago. Today historians can tell the gender of the people who made them Photo: Hubert Stadler / Corbis / Getty Images Books | Prehistory The hands of women Were gender relations hierarchical among prehistoric humans? Marylene Patou-Mathis has evidence to disprove this theory By Christina von Braun 01/07/2022
