This woman who has everyone so excited, where is her head? “It's in my Subaru Forester, riding in the back seat with the seat belt,” says anthropologist JP Brown, conservator for Chicago's Field ...

The earliest recorded case of impacted wisdom teeth belongs to the renowned "Magdalenian Girl," a nearly complete 13,000- to 15,000-year-old skeleton excavated in France in 1911and acquired by The ...

Cannibalism may have been a routine burial practice in Europe about 15,000 years ago, a new study suggests. Researchers at the Natural History Museum (NHM) in the UK analysed remains uncovered across ...

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GÖTTINGEN, Germany — A cave in Poland has provided disturbing evidence about how some of our ancestors lived 18,000 years ago. Scientists studying ancient human remains from the the Maszycka Cave near ...

A recent study on the funerary practices of early humans during the Magdalenian period in Europe suggests that cannibalism may have been a deliberate cultural practice rather than driven by survival ...

One of the engravings showing what appears to be a fish entangled in fishing nets. Credit: Jérôme Robitaille et al. A recently published study reveals the existence of ancient fishing techniques at ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract The category of "animal species" is at the heart of traditional interpretations of Palaeolithic art. In this context, animal depictions have ...

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Prehistoric people who lived around 15,000 years ago likely used firelight to animate their artwork and enhance their storytelling, according to a study published last week. Researchers from the ...

As far back as 20,000 years ago, humans living around the Bay of Biscay were crafting a variety of whale bones into tools, new research has revealed. A careful study of artifacts that have spent years ...

Our early ancestors probably created intricate artwork by firelight, an examination of 50 engraved stones unearthed in France has revealed. A study published in the open-access journal PLOS ONE argues ...