History
Oral and Folk Histories: Memory, Storytelling, and the Human Past
History is not preserved only in books, official documents, and written records. For thousands of years, human beings have understood and passed on their world through speech, stories, myths, songs, legends, and personal memories.
Ötzi: What a 5,300-Year-Old Body Can Tell Us About the Past
For thousands of years, a man lay hidden beneath the ice of the Alps. No one knew his name, where he had come from, or how he had died. Then, in the summer of 1991, two German tourists hiking in the Ötztal Alps on the border between Austria and Italy noticed what appeared to be a human body trapped in the ice.