Archaeologists have discovered potentially the world's oldest 3D map, carved into the floor of a rock shelter outside of ...

There is mounting evidence indicating that symbolic and abstract thought may have deep evolutionary origins and not just a ...

A group of Ice Age hunter-gatherers living in central Europe may have adorned their faces with cheek piercings at as early as ...

A tiny head carved from mammoth ivory looks back at us from the Stone Age. This sculpture, discovered at the archaeological ...

When we think about the people of the Paleolithic age, many of us tend to picture a primitive fight for survival. Their lives are often depicted simply as a search for food and shelter ...

A pilot project to scan the surface material of an Iraqi desert revealed 850 different artifacts from the Old and Middle ...

This image of a projected video of the Dongsam-dong shell midden in the Neolithic Hall is provided by the National Museum of ...

Discovered over a century ago, the late Upper Paleolithic archeological site included stone and bone tools, evidence of ...

Our human ancestors fundamentally changed their eating behavior in the Neolithic period. This was when they began to cultivate cereals and domesticate wild animals.

the research explores the intentionality behind incised stone artifacts, providing compelling evidence of abstract thinking and symbolic behavior during the Middle Paleolithic period. Until now ...

A recent study has shed new light on the cognitive and cultural complexity of human societies during the Middle Paleolithic ...

This is the first discovery of its kind in North China from the Paleolithic period. "Traditionally, we believed stone tool making was simply a matter of subtraction, changing the shape of the ...