The study of a skeleton found in Tanzania in 1913 has for the first time revealed a practice of facial piercing in Africa from the end of the Pleistocene, at least 20,000 years ago. Artistic reconstruction of OH1 facial piercings, and the impact of labrets on tooth wear. Like a distant echo of t
For millennia, the natives of Colombia have illustrated their mythology in the jungle of Guaviare, a treasure that remained inaccessible during decades of war. Andrés Lopez, historian of the Colombian Institute of Anthropology and History (ICANH) in front of a rock panel painted more than 100 mete
Magicians, sorcerers... In these days of Halloween, a legacy of ancient pagan festivals, what do we know about witches, these creatures that appeared in the Middle Ages and were persecuted for centuries? Meeting with Maxime Perbellini. Witches Flying to a Sabbath (19th century engraving). Before be
Although scientists and historians have long conjectured that stone and bone carvings have been used as a form of symbolism since the Middle Paleolithic (250,000-45,000 BC), the findings supporting this theory are very scarce. A recent discovery by archaeologists from the Hebrew University and the