Game of Stones: The Archaeology of Europe from Handaxes to Stonehenge

Harvard FAS

Buried beneath modern cities, Roman amphitheaters, and Medieval churches lie subtle traces of Europe’s earlier occupants: campsites littered stone tools and animal bones, human bodies preserved in bogs and frozen in ice, and cave walls decorated with extinct animals. This course will explore European prehistory from the first settlement of Europe by Homo erectus, around a million years ago, to the building of Stonehenge, c. 2000 B.C. We will cover some of those most exciting topics in…