What appeared at first glance to be just another ancient piece of rock might actually bear one ... stone tools characteristic of the Lower Paleolithic era, a period spanning from 2.5 million ...

Archaeologists often break up this lengthy time span into three periods — the Paleolithic (3.3 million to 12,000 years ago), ...

Researchers concluded the Soii Havzak rock shelter had “at least three phases of occupation,” including one from the Middle Paleolithic and two from the Upper Paleolithic. These periods are ...

Israeli researchers from Tel Aviv University proposed a theory explaining the mysterious presence of small children in the depths of caves adorned with Paleolithic rock paintings. The study ...

The age of the lines and how they were formed still needs to be verified, but there is a chance this may be one of the oldest symbolic stone carvings made by our human ancestors – at least 100,000 ...

Ben Marwick During the Middle Paleolithic—a period spanning about 40,000 to 300,000 years ago, also called the Middle Stone Age—groups such as modern humans, Neanderthals and Denisovans ...

Discovery in China of tools called Quina scrapers suggests the people of East Asia were as inventive and flexible with ...

While the Paleolithic period involved a nomadic lifestyle ... Don't take your knowledge for granite — try your best to rock our gneiss little quiz. Remember to log in to put your name on the ...

During the Middle Paleolithic, when Neanderthals were modern humans' neighbors, new technologies meant something quite different: new kinds of stone tools that were smaller but could be used for ...

During the Middle Paleolithic, when Neanderthals were modern humans’ neighbors, new technologies meant something quite different: new kinds of stone tools that were smaller but could be used for ...