Artefacts unearthed in Yunnan province display key features of toolmaking technology associated with Neanderthals much ...

Seventeen decorated caves of the Paleolithic age were inscribed as an extension to the Altamira ... as exceptional testimonies to a cultural tradition and as outstanding illustrations of a significant ...

Archaeologists previously assumed that East Asia did not see considerable tool development during the Middle Paleolithic, but ...

The newly renovated spaces include the Paleolithic, Neolithic, and Bronze Age sections ... demonstrations of Paleolithic stone tool-making, illustrations depicting daily life, and stratigraphic ...

The tool we've identified is called a Quina scraper. This type of stone tool is well known from archaeological sites in ...

A new study sheds light on how prehistoric hunter-gatherer populations in Europe coped with climate changes over 12,000 years ...

Traveling East might have been an appropriate tendency for early humans living in what is now Europe near the end of the Ice Age. A team of researchers describe how populations shifted in size, ...

In addition, once cumulative culture is firmly in place within a population (see Middle Stone Age/Middle Paleolithic below), technologies will begin to reflect population-level differences as a ...

Seventeen decorated caves of the Paleolithic age were inscribed as an extension to the Altamira Cave, inscribed in 1985. The property will now appear on the List as Cave of Altamira and Paleolithic ...

Archeological evidence has indicated that early humans fabricated tools during the Middle Paleolithic period in Europe and Africa. East Asia, during that same time, was considered less advanced. A new ...

Archaeologists like me are interested in the Middle Paleolithic – a period spanning 250,000 to 30,000 years ago – because it includes the first appearance of our species, our arrival into many ...

“Our study found a likely genetic continuity among the human populations of the Japanese islands all the way from the Paleolithic age down to the present day,” said Jun Gojobori, a lecturer of ...