The open rings are about 0.75 inches at the widest part of their opening, the researchers said. Justin Garnett and Frederic Sellet A little over a century ago, archaeologists exploring a Paleolithic ...

Researchers uncovered rare azurite traces on a Final Paleolithic artifact, overturning assumptions that early Europeans used ...

The findings from the Ghar-e Boof site reveal that the diet of the local hominins included carnivores and tortoises, among others. Credit: N. Conard The findings from the Ghar-e Boof site reveal that ...

Is the order of the modern alphabet connected to how our shared ancestors counted the phases of the moon and its effect on tides 50,000 years ago? Did the first stirrings of government and bureaucracy ...

An ancient image of a two-humped camel has been discovered in Kapova cave (Southern Urals); the age of the image is preliminarily estimated in the interval from 14,500 to 37,700 years An ancient image ...

Archaeologists found a Paleolithic rock shelter with hundreds of stone tools, blades and bones in a river valley, photos show and a study said. Photo from Zaidner and Kurbanov (2024) Walking through a ...

Tokyo, Japan – Researchers from Tokyo Metropolitan University crafted replica stone age tools and used them for a range of tasks to see how different activities create traces on the edge. They found ...

Anthropologie (1962-), Vol. 53, No. 1/2, Special Issue: The 19th EAA Annual Meeting in Pilsen: What is Changing and When — Post-LBK Life in Central Europe and The Life of Lithic Tools in the ...

Developer Polyperfect has announced Polylithic, a new third-person survival/crafting game "with a dash of sci-fi plot" set in the Paleolithic era – i.e. early man. It's due to launch into Steam Early ...

Cave art that had been created in the Paleolithic age is thought to be the world's first attempt at producing a moving picture, not a muddled mess of limbs and heads. Michelle Starr Science editor ...

The Stone Age was a prehistoric period that lasted more than 3 million years, from the point when human ancestors began using stone tools until the time we invented metalworking. Archaeologists often ...