The dancing plague of 1518
The city of Strasbourg in Alsace (now France) was the site of one of the strangest ‘plagues’ in human history.
Mary and Elizabeth I: Sisters at Odds
The surviving children of the heir-obsessed king Henry VIII were not only girls, but were both declared illegitimate.
Sustainability of the Nile since the construction of the Aswan Dam
For thousands of years, the people of North Eastern Africa have relied on the Nile River as their primary source of life sustaining water.
The role of the Mbuti pygmy woman
The Mbuti Pygmies are nomadic hunters and gatherers that reside in the Ituri rain forest in north-eastern Congo.
Who was Delfina Cuero?
In 1968, Florence Connolly Shipek, an anthropologist and professor of American Indian History, published a book called "Delfina Cuero: Her Autobiography-An Account of her Last Years and Her Ethnobotanic Contributions." The purpose of this book was to ‘prove’ the American citizenship of Delfina.
The evolution of stone tools
Archaeologists classify stone tools into groups called “Industries”, or Grahame Clark’s “Modes”, with the latter having the general time frame of Pre-Mode 1 to Mode 5.