A research group led by the Nagoya University Museum and Graduate School of Environmental Studies in Japan has clarified differences in the physical characteristics of rocks used by early humans ...

Haragopal warned that increasing real estate activity is threatening historical sites around the city and urged the heritage ...

Under the aegis of the University of Oslo, an international research team has extracted and analyzed plant DNA from the sediments of the Armenian "Aghitu-3" cave. About 40,000 to 25,000 years ago, the ...

The increase in the productivity of stone tool cutting-edge (shown in white lines) did not occur before or at the beginning of Homo sapiens’ wide dispersals in Eurasia but subsequently occurred after ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. A broken molar and some sophisticated stone pointed tools suggest ...

Rows of tiny crosses and dots run along the flank of a mammoth no bigger than your palm. Someone carved it from a tusk around ...

The new findings place early modern humans in northwestern Europe 45,000 years ago and indicate that they were highly adaptable to the region’s subarctic conditions. Excavating the LRJ layers at Ranis ...

Research suggests that Paleolithic humans in the Middle East selected flint for their cutting tools based on differences in the mechanical properties of the rock. They seem to have purposefully ...