Culture largely comprises of three domains: intellectual, artistc & religious; political, economic & social; and science, commerce & industry. It is the historic weighting of these domains that determines the 'culture' of each nation state.
Culture:
Native Land
Culturomics2.0
Catalogues of culture
Who was Confuscius?
Social inequality leaves a genetic mark
Time capsules: news that can last a million years
Ritual and the evolution of the divergent modes of cohesion
When time became regular and universal, it changed history
First signs: unlocking the mysteries of the world's oldest symbols
Latitude adjustment: distance from the equator shapes our thinking
Culture is a group's characteristic way of perceiving its environment
Collapse of world cultures and civilisations:
These 5 cites vanished without a trace
1177 BC: The year civiization collapsed
Why did the Harappan civilization vanish?
The ethnosphere - dreams from endangered cultures
Drought, not war, felled some ancient Asian civilizations
What rteallycaused the collapse of the Maya civilization?
Anthropologist Wade Davis on disappearing world cultures
Ancient DNA shows European wipe-out of early Americans
Location-based data raise ethical issues for cultural heritage
Satellite-based damage assessment of cultural heritage sites
Severe cyclones may have played a role in the Maya collapse
Cultures and disasters: understanding cultural framings in DRR
The Hopewell airburst event, 1699-1567 years ago (252-383 CE)
Aerial photographs uncover Bogota's indigenous hydraulic system
Are cultural heritage and resources threatened by climate change?
The Mayan indians: A great civilization brought low by climate change
Archaeologists discover mysterious Guatemalan monument in plain sight
Climate change likely caused migration, demise of ancient Indus Valley civilization
Scientists believe they may have discovered the disease that wiped out 80% of Aztecs
Widespread population decline in South America correlated with mid-Holocene climate change
The great dying of the indigenous peoples of the Americas caused global cooling in the 17th century
The construction of the pre-Hispanic agriculture landscape i the Columbian Andes: Sabana de Bogota
Language:
Swiss yodelling as a language
Language alters our experience of time
Giving new ife to old languages in Australia
A Turkish origin for Indo-European languages
The mysterious Rongorongo writing of Easter Island
This language is only used when collecting nits in New Guinea
World's languages traced back to single African mother tongue
Indigenous Peoples:
Map of native lands
When whales and humans talk
Finding our human ancestor Part 1 2 3
Life beyond death in the driest place on Earth
Indigenous knowledges key to 'Healing Country'
Humans wore necklaces more than 120,000 years ago
Think everyone died young in ancient societies? Think again
More than a quarter of the globe is controlled by indigenous groups
The indigenous lands of North America and historical treaties - interactive map
Anthropology & Archaeology:
How do fossils form?
Complexity in big history
SESHAT: global history databank
536 AD - the worst year in history
Mapping a world of human activity
The longetivity of human civilizations
Cyber-archaeology at UC San Diego
Why 536 was 'theworst year to be alive'
What did people do before toilet paper?
A time-line of human impact on the planet
The scientific sorcery of radiocarbon dating
Lasers are driving a revolution in archeology
World's oldest coin factory discovered in China
Dimensions of cultural differene and their effect
An historical database of sociocultural evolution
Rice or wheat? How grains define cultural identity
What archaeology is telling us about the real Jesus
Humans evolved by sharing technology and culture
Applied geometry engraved on 3,700-year-old tablet
Saudi Arabia camel carvings dated to prehistoric era
45,500-year-old pig painting is the world's olkdest animal art
Genomic tracks migration from lost empires to modern cities
Pollution is thfreatening some of the world's oldes rock carvings
Research reveals new clues about how humans become tool users
Can there be a quantitative theory for the history of life and society?
Novel microstructural marker for malting in the archaeological record
Erasing history: ISIS, Balkans, US Civil War statues, and Saddam Hussein
We think we are the first advanced earthlings - but how do we really know?
Gold & silver tubes in a Russian museum are the oldest known drinking straws
Geometry guided construction of earliest known temple, built 6,000 years before Stonehenge
Crowdsourced archaeology shows how humans have influenced Earth for thousands of years
'Magicians of the Gods' - global flood - Younger-Dryas cataclysm - Clovis comet impact - prior civilization
Out of Africa:
The earliiest human ancestor revealed
Retracing our ancestor's global migration
Three times tectonics changed the climate
Did a chaotic climate drive human evolution?
Homo Naledi - a new limb to the Human Tree
Human origins: leaving Africa, ancient humans
DNA reveals first look at enigmatic human relative
Out of Africa and into an archaic human melting pot
The astonishing vision and focus of Namibia's nomads
Fossil DNA reveals new twists in modern human origins
World's oldest camp bedding found in South African cave
Cold climate contributed to the extinction of the Neanderthals
Homo Naledi: fossil trove adds a new limb to human family tree
700,000-year-old stone tools point to mysterious human relative
AI-powered genomic analysis reveals unknown human ancestor
Controversial new study pinpoints where all modern humans arose
These early humans lived 300,000 years ago - but had modern faces
Pleitocene climate variability in eastern Africa influenced hominin evolution
Fossil found in Israel suggests Homo sapiens left Africa 180,000 years ago
Dispersals and genetic adaptation of Bantu-speaking populations in Africa and North America
African genetic diversity provides novel insights into evolutionary history and local adaptations
Into Egypt:
ScanPyramids 2017
Out of Africa via Egypt
Nefertiti was more than a pretty face
Egypt unearths 7,000-year-old lost city
Pristine 4400-year-old tomb discovered in Egypt
Dive beneath the pyramids of Egypt's black pharaohs
Ancient DNA may reveal origin of the Bibical Philistines
How Egypt's ancient city of divine cats was rediscovered
8,000 years ago, 17 women reproduced for every one man
Egypt's pharaohs welcomed summer with this fabulous festival
Archeologists discover earliest monumental Egyptian hieroglyphs
This ancient diary reveals how Egyptians built the Great Pyramid
Cosmic-ray particles reveal secret chamber in Egypt's Great Pyramid
Colorful paintings of daily life uncovered in 4,300-tear-old Egyptian tomb
Ancient mummy DNA reveals surprises about genetic origins of Egyptians
This wonder of the ancient world shone brightly for more than one thousand years
Discovery of ancient restoration using a rare mud carapace on a mumified individual New Kingdom Egypt
Into the Middle East:
'Cyber-archeology' salvages lost Iraqui art
The original 'Assassins': medieva, warriors of Alamut
Is Saudi Arabia the next big heritage tourism destination?
Role of climate in the rise and fall of the Neo-Assyrian Empire
Rome brought pomp and prosperity to this ancient outpost of Jordan
Researchers decipher ancient Dead Sea Scrolls with the help of advanced imaging
DNA of 6,500-year-old human remains in Israeli cave points to origin of ancient Calcolithic culture
Into Europe:
Europeans
The dental proteome of Homo Antecessor
The first Europeans weren't who you might think
Agriculture linked to DNA changes in ancient Europe
An incredibly details map of Europe's population shifts
Mysterious 'ghost population' of ancient humans discovered
6,000 yars of arrows emerge from melting Norwegian ice patch
Enigmatic skull could be the oldest modern human outside Africa
World's oldest human DNA found in 800,000-year-old tooth of a cannibal
Córdoba's stunning mosque-cathedral showcases Spain's Muslim heritage
'Fourth strand' of European ancestry originated with hunter-gatherers isolated by Ice Age
Scientists find new evidence: early human moved through the Mediterranean much earlier than believed
Neanderthals:
Sheanderthal
Genetics spills secrets from Neanderthal's lost history
Ancient DNA reveals new twists in Neanderthal migration
The astonishing age of a Neanderthal cave construction site
Teeth reveal details about a Neanderthal who fell down a well
All modern humans have Neanderthal DNA, new research finds
Neanderthal DNA has subtle but significant impact on human traits
Neanderthals and modern humans diverged at least 800.000 years ago
A world map of Neanderthal and Devisovan ancestry in modern humans
The astonishing - and accidental - Ice Age discovery made by Spanish spelunkers
Impacts of Neanderthal-introgressed sequences on the landscape of human gene expression
New research finds surprising early replacement of Neanderthals by modern humans in Southern Spain
Turkey, Greece & Bulgaria:
Secret tunnel reveals procession of ancient gods
This tomb held the treasures of Greece's 'Griffin Warrior'
Advanced plumbing and metalwork found on ancient Greek island
This 2,400-year-old royal tomb was found by accident during WWII
This stone age settlement took humanity's first steps towards city life
Spain:
Emblems and spaces of power during the Argaric Bronze Age at La Almoloya, Murcia
Neolithic Britons:
3-ton parts of Stonehenge may have been carried from earlier monuments
Italians, Romans & others:
The diet of Pompeii revealed
The first sack of Rome wasn't when you think it was
How was Rome founded? Not in a day, and not by twins
Thamugadi: the ancient Roman city buried by the Sahara sands
A Roman-era 'superhighway' is disappearing. Italy has a plan to save it
Julius Caeser came. He saw. He conquered. Here's how Rome celebrated
Hidden temple in a buried Roman city discovered by ground-penetrating radar
Eruption of Alaska's Okmok volcano linked to mysterious period of extreme cold in ancient Rome
Druids:
Why do we know so little about the Druids?
Were. the Azores home to an ancient civilisation?
Vikings:
Lost Viking 'highway' revealed by melting ice
Scientists raid DNA to explore Vikings' genetic roots
Jelling Stone: 3D scans reveal power of Viking queen.
After pillaging France and Spain, Viking raiders set their sights on Rome
England, Ireland & France:
Eleanor of Aquitaine
Britain's stone age building boom
Mary Rose shipwreck skulls go online in 3D
Inside the Irish 'hell caves' where Halloween was born
The Irish DNA atlas: revealing fine-scale population structure and history within Ireland
Into Central Asia:
Karakorum
When modern Eurasia was born
What happened 4,000 years ago in the Urals?
The controversy behind this Silk Road city's ancient wonders
Heading North: late Pleistocene environments and human dispersals in Central and Eastern Asia
Into South Asia:
Nallanda: the university that changed the world
The 'cartographic nightmare' of the Kashmir region explained
The Buddha's birthplace grants insightsnabout his life and times
75 years after Partition: these maps show how the British split India
After Alexander the Great's death, this Indian empire filled the vacuum
This ancient Himalayan kingdom has been isolated from the world - until now
Why the Partition of India and Pakistan still casts a long shadow over the region
Into East and South Asia:
Seeking the hidden temples of Cambodia
Stone tools age Asia's first Homo presence
Buddha's birthplace yields clues about his mysterious life
New species of early human found in cave in the Philippines
Ancient DNA reveals prehistoric population of Southeast Asia
Early modern humans and morphological variation in Southeast Asia
100,000-year-old human skulls from East Asia reveal complex mix of trends in time, space
Sulawesi: world's oldest cave art: half-animal, half-human hybrids depicted on oldest discovered cave art
Archaeological evidence that late 14th-century tsunami devastated Northern Sumatra & redirected history
Into China:
The Song Dynasty built an early Industrial Revolution
Who was the Chinese emporer behind the terra-cotta warriors?
Ancient DNA reveals intriguing details about a 6th century Chinese emporrer
DNA reveals unexpected origins of enigmatic mummies buried in a Chinese desert
Into Japan:
The three samurai who unified Madieval Japan
Kofuns: the ancient tombs kept under lock and key
An ethereal forest where Japanese commit suicide
Japan confronts a stark reality: a nation of old people
The Japanese warrior who founded the Tokugawa shogunate
Into Australia:
How did aborigines get to Australia? DNA helps solve a mystery
The forgotten story of Tupaia, the star navigator who helped James Cook reach Australia
Researchers have uncovered an ancient Aboriginal archaelogical site preserved on the seabed
Aborigonal artefacts on the continental shelf reveal ancient drowned cultural landscapes in NW Australia
Into the Americas:
Vikings in North America? Here's what we really know
Evidence grows for the early peopling of the Americas
It was America's first English colony. Then it was gone
Old copper culture: North America's forgotten metal workers
Archeologists discover a mystery at the bottom of Lake Huron
An indigenous 'metropolis' may be hidden under this Wisconsin lake
15,000 year-old Idaho archaeology site now among America's oldest
Evidence of human occupation in Mexico around the last glacial maximum
'Astounding new finds' suggest ancient empire may be hiding in plain sight
These 5 ancient cities once ruled North America - what happened to them?
Surprise cave discoveries may double the time people lived in the Americas
Thee new DNA studies are shaking up the history of humans in the Americas
Fossil footprints prove humans populated the Americas around 23,000 years ago
Surprise discoveries in Mexico cave may double time of peopling of the Americas
New DNA evidence provides unprecedented insight into the mysterious Chaco culture
The current genomic landscape of western South America: Andes, Amazonia, and Pacific Coast
The persistence of ancient Beothuk and Maritime Archaic mitochondrial DNA in modern Native Americans
Mayan:
Ancient Maya 101
Lidar uncovers thousands of new Maya structures
What really caused the collapse of the Mayan civilization?
Laser techology discovers over 60,000 structures from Mayan civilization
Massive 3,000 year-old Mayan ceremonial complex discovered in 'plain sight'
Why was the ancient city of Cahokia abandoned? New clues rule out one theory
Aztec:
Aztec moral philosophy: life on the slippery Earth
Nonlinearity and distance of ancient routes in the Aztec empire
Inca:
Rare underwater Inca offering pulled from Lake Titicaca
Ancient mass child sacrifice in Peru may be world's largest
The context and meaning of an intact Inca underwater offering from Lake Titicaca
Peru:
The astonishing Paracus (Peru) elongated skulls
Two ancient populations that diverged later reconverged in the Americas
Crash and rebound of indigineous populations in lowland South America
Modern America:
The city at the center of the Cosmos
How the gold rush transformed California
Sequoyah, the US state that almost existed
How white planters usurped Hawaii's last queen
Gettysburg was no ordinary battle. These maps reveal how Lee lost the fight
Antigua (Guatemala): a vibrant colonial UNESCO World Heritage city is in a volcanic hotspot
Into Polynesia:
A short scan of Maori joureys to Antarctica
Native South Americans reached Polynesia early
Why ancient Pacific mariners were the NASA scientists of their day
Settlement of East Polynesia earlier, incremental, and and coincident with prolonged South Pacific drought
Formation of the USA:
The history of US territorial expansion
How a 'forgotten' 600-year-old tsunami changed history
400 years ago, enslaved Africans first arrived in Virginia
The unlikely story of the map that helped create the USA
This radical religious sect had an outsize impact on American culture
Testing theories of American politics: elites, interest groups, average citizens
Pirates of the Caribbean and the Indian Ocean:
These pirates leftthe Caribbean behind - and stole the biggest booty ever