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 ...

Blue residue on a 13,000-year-old stone artifact, long believed to be an oil lamp, may paint a new picture of Paleolithic art ...

New research along Turkey’s Ayvalık coast reveals a once-submerged land bridge that may have helped early humans cross from ...

The discovery of a stone long overlooked in a German museum suggests that Ice Age communities experimented with vivid hues ...

The prehistoric peopling of Europe has long been documented as occurring in waves from the western edge of Eurasia.

Archaeologists have discovered what appears to be the oldest known example of three-dimensional East Asian art in a rubbish pile excavated in Lingjing, Henan, China. The ancient Paleolithic bird ...

Researchers uncovered the extraordinary cluster of artifacts in 2021 during an excavation at the Paleolithic site of Milovice IV. The "kit" contains 29 stone blades and bladelets that were found ...

Archaeologists excavating a paleolithic cave site in Galilee, Israel, have found evidence that a deep-cave compound at the site may have been used for ritualistic gatherings, according to a new paper ...

The 145th symposium of the Wenner-Gren Foundation took place June 1–8, 2012, in Häringe Slott near Stockholm, Sweden. The primary goal of the symposium was to reframe discussions of behavioral ...

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 excavation in eastern Norway has uncovered traces of a dwelling and thousands of artifacts marking a shift some 9,000 ...

Luis Abel Orquera, Neal W. Ackerly, Frank E. Bayham, David L. Browman, Philip G. Chase, G. A. Clark, Vicente Giancotti Tassone, Kurt R. Moore, Milla Y. Ohel and Randall White Discussions of the ...