Stone “Clovis points” used by prehistoric hunters to kill animals are also remarkably efficient at cutting meat off a large animal carcass – at least according to a modern bison butchering experiment.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An artist’s view of what the area of the Zvejnieki cemetery (present-day northern Latvia) might have looked like when animal parts ...

Prehistoric people used a culinary method, similar to slow cooking today, to carefully extract animal teeth to use in decorative crafts, such as pendant-making, archaeologists have shown. It has long ...

Prehistoric hunter-gatherers were likely skilled seafarers who could make long and challenging journeys. Stone tools, animal bones and other artifacts unearthed in Malta indicate that humans first ...

Archaeologists in southeastern Turkey have unearthed a remarkable set of 11,500-year-old carved stone animals – a fox, a vulture, and a wild boar – offering unprecedented insight into how prehistoric ...

"Published in cooperation with ArchaeNova e.V., Heidelberg, Germany. Translation: Mirko Wittwar."--Title page verso. Originally published by C.H. Beck, München in 2006. This translation based on the ...