The age of discovery and exploration (fifteenth-sixteenth century CE) in Europe and later colonisation of newly explored territories by Portuguese, Spanish, Danish, French, Dutch, and British led to extensive mapping/charting ...

In India, the organization of the ancient glass industries that produced, starting around the mid-1st millennium BCE, huge quantities of small drawn beads that were traded both locally and all over the Indian Ocean and ...

A cave bear skull from the Upper Paleolithic is carefully positioned on a modified block in the Skull Chamber of Chauvet Cave. The Skull Chamber, as the culmination of a speleological parcours, has apparently been strategically ...