New study demonstrates that certain incised stone artefacts from the Levantine Middle Palaeolithic, specifically from Manot, Qafzeh, and Quneitra caves, were deliberately engraved with geometric ...

Archaeologists are moving away from the idea of a "linear progression" of weapons, suggesting early humans were versatile engineers who used bows and spears simultaneously.

This statement isn't new, but for years anthropologists, archaeologists and historians of art understood these artistic manifestations as purely aesthetic and decorative motives. Eduardo Palacio-Pérez ...

Archaeologists have discovered a major Palaeolithic cave art site, arguably the most important found on the Eastern Iberian Coast in Europe. Archaeologists have discovered a major Palaeolithic cave ...

The Palaeolithic archaeological record in Britain captures a rather sudden increase in stone knapping skills around half a ...

A new, nondestructive method of extracting DNA has been used for the first time to identify the owner of a Palaeolithic pendant found in a south Siberian cave. Researchers in a laboratory in Leipzig, ...

University of Calgary provides funding as a founding partner of The Conversation CA. University of Calgary provides funding as a member of The Conversation CA-FR. In many popular accounts of human ...

Scientists have unravelled a mystery about the disappearance of dwarf hippos and elephants that once roamed the picturesque landscape on the Mediterranean island of Cyprus before palaeolithic humans ...

YOUR correspondent, Mr. C. Evans, raises the question, in your issue of November 2, whether the peculiarly-chipped flint found in the Palæolithic gravels, and accepted as the work of man, may not be ...

The paleo diet – also known as the caveman diet – is based on the idea of eating similar foods to our ancestors from the Palaeolithic or Old Stone Age, who lived around 2.5 million to 12,000 years ago ...

Chennai: Students from the department of ancient history and archaeology, University of Madras, unearthed stone tools that may belong to the Middle Palaeolithic period at Arunachaleswarar hill (also ...