Tagged with Prehistory

We can only speculate to what extent prehistoric art works were made for practical, or sheerly aesthetic means. Did we need art way back then for any different reason than we do now?  Are there unique clues in prehistoric art for the ultimate reasons why humans may have always needed art? (more)

Approximately 7,500 years ago agricultural communities began to develop along the Danube basin. Within two centuries they had spread from Belgium to Ukraine. Unlike their hunter-gatherer ancestors, they planted crops, using seeds from the Near East. Amid all those eastern plants was one that came from the southwest -- Papaver somniferum. (more)