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 ...

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

Archaeologists have unearthed a set of "truly significant" Stone Age artifacts during an excavation being conducted ahead of ...

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 ...

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 ...

A pilot project to scan the surface material of an Iraqi desert revealed 850 different artifacts from the Old and Middle Paleolithic ... Paleolithic era, including 850 different Stone Age artifacts.

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

A team of researchers has shed new light on the cultural practices of the ancient Pavlovian peoples of the Upper Paleolithic, a society that flourished ... During the Iron Age, between 1,500 and 2,000 ...

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 ...