Worship in Medieval and Early Modern Europe offers readers a chance to understand better the societal and confessional norms that motivated late medieval and early modern Christians to maintain or ...

And that could be one of the reasons early modern humans ultimately supplanted the Neanderthals across Europe about 40,000 years ago, according to research led by scientists in France, including ...

Women in early modern Europe collected recipes for balms, distillations and elixirs to treat all manner of ailments. Science Photo Library/Getty Images Hannah Woolley is often called the Martha ...

The new findings place early modern humans in northwestern Europe 45,000 years ago and indicate that they were highly adaptable to the region’s subarctic conditions. Alanna Mayham / January 31, 2024. ...

The discoveries push back the earliest date of our species — Homo sapiens — in Europe by roughly 10,000 years, to about 54,000 years ago, according to a study on the findings published ...

New research reveals that early humans who took refuge in modern-day Spain and Portugal were the only Europeans to survive the last Ice Age.

Modern humans arrived in the westernmost part of Europe 41,000 -- 38,000 years ago, about 5,000 years earlier than previously known, according to Jonathan Haws, Ph.D., professor and chair of the ...

Abducting women: early modern Europe’s solution to marital problems Published: March 4, 2025 12:58pm EST. Mariela Fargas Peñarrocha, Universitat de Barcelona. Author.

During the early modern period, the predominant model of the body placed great importance on melancholy. It was closely tied to black bile, one of the four fluids essential to health (a.k.a ...

Archaeologists working in Bacho Kiro Cave earlier this year. Image: Tsenka Tsanova, MPI-EVA Leipzig, License: CC-BY-SA 2.0 Europe was considerably colder 44,000 years ago than previously thought ...

The little ice age is thought to have lasted nearly 400 years. Ed Hawkins/RCraig09, CC BY-SA. This early modern climate crisis was as politically explosive as ours is shaping up to be.