Best Prehistory
André Leroi-Gourhan was a prominent French archaeologist specializing in Paleolithic prehistory. His work focused on understanding early human technology through a structural analysis of cave art and meticulously documented open-air excavations, most notably at the Pincevent Magdalenian site. He sou...
Grahame Clark was a prominent British archaeologist specializing in European prehistory. His work centered on the Mesolithic period, most notably through his excavations at Star Carr in Yorkshire between 1949 and 1951. Clark’s research significantly advanced archaeological understanding by integrati...
François Bordes (1919–1981) was a French prehistorian and professor at the University of Bordeaux whose work on Middle Paleolithic stone tools shaped modern approaches to Neanderthal material culture. He developed the Bordes typology, a standardized classification system for Mousterian flint impleme...
Jacques Boucher de Perthes (1788–1868) was a French customs official and antiquarian whose discoveries in the Somme Valley gravel pits near Abbeville helped establish the deep antiquity of the human species. In the 1830s and 1840s he documented flint handaxes in stratigraphic association with bones...
John Lubbock was a British banker, politician, naturalist, and archaeologist who contributed to the nineteenth-century study of prehistory. In his 1865 book "Pre-historic Times," he introduced the terms Paleolithic and Neolithic to distinguish phases of the Stone Age based on differences in stone-to...
John Mulvaney was an Australian archaeologist whose fieldwork and scholarship helped establish the systematic study of Aboriginal prehistory in Australia. His excavations at Kenniff Cave in Queensland produced evidence of human occupation extending far earlier than many scholars had previously accep...
Stefan Milo’s YouTube channel primarily presents historical documentaries focusing on topics like ancient civilizations, military history, and the evolution of warfare, often utilizing archival footage and scholarly analysis.
Manfred Korfmann (1942–2005) was a German archaeologist and prehistorian best known for his directorship of the excavations at the ancient site of Troy in modern-day Turkey. Beginning in 1988, his work utilized modern geophysical surveying and archaeological techniques to uncover evidence of a much...
Rhys Jones was a Welsh-Australian archaeologist celebrated for his foundational contributions to the study of Australian Aboriginal prehistory. He conducted extensive research on the Pleistocene colonization of Australia, helping to establish early human occupation dates for the continent. Jones was...
Dan Davis History is a YouTube channel dedicated to presenting detailed historical analyses through meticulously researched documentaries focusing on military campaigns, political events, and social movements across various eras – primarily from the 18th to 20th centuries.
Before Adam is Jack London's 1907 American novel about ancestral memory, an early evolutionary fantasy centered on prehistoric hominids.
