So long as the student occupies himself with political history only, he may fail to perceive the unity of Europe ; he may think that each nation has followed its own course. But when he turns to ...

Modern humans arrived in westernmost Europe 41,000 to 38,000 years ago, about 5,000 years earlier than previously known, according to an international team of researchers that discovered stone tools ...

Pamela H. Smith during a blacksmithing course at the West Dean College of Arts and Conservation in West Sussex, UK, 2004 (all images courtesy the University of Chicago Press) Skill, kunst ("art"), and ...

IT is the custom to speak of this as a prosaic, matter-of-fact age, entirely devoted to material pursuits, and with no perception of the value of æsthetic enjoyments. The fact, however, seems to be, ...

Shells have long been valued by societies all over the world for their diversity, beauty, and luminescence. Evidence from the Middle Stone Age tells us that shells were the first objects to clearly be ...