If you've ever wondered how farming spread far and wide, our research on past human societies offers one explanation: contact between different groups often drives change. In a recent paper, together ...

Simon Schama is a distinguished historian, probably still best known for “The Embarrassment of Riches: An Interpretation of Dutch Culture in the Golden Age.” But he has also published books about the ...

List of maps and illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Note on romanization and pronunciation -- Note on names -- Introduction: Who made the Great Wall of China? -- Why walls? -- Long wall -- Han Walls: ...

Archaeologists have uncovered three Mayan cities in Central America’s jungles. The cities are around three miles apart, arranged in a triangular shape. The Guatemalan Ministry of Culture and Sports ...

Introduction : who made the Great Wall of China? -- 1. Why walls? -- 2. Long wall -- 3. Han Walls : plus ça change -- 4. Shifting frontiers and decadent barbarians -- 5. China reunited -- 6. Without ...