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

An archaeological site in Germany suggests communal hunting and complex thinking emerged earlier in human evolution than once thought.

Archaeological records indicate that prehistoric people in Europe relied on fire throughout the Ice Age—but the evidence ...

Archaeologists like me are interested in the Middle Paleolithic — a period spanning 250,000 to 30,000 years ago ... People used Quina scrapers to scrape and cut soft materials, such as meat and animal ...

"Słupcio" — or "little guy from Słupsk" in Polish — is the name given to the amber bear in 2013, when a Polish kindergartner ...

Similarities in fabrication techniques suggest that Paleolithic people passed on their methods - and may have shared them ...

Theopetra Cave, in Greece, believed to be the oldest human construction on earth, reopened to the public after 9 years of ...

Explore the Paleolithic era, the dawn of humanity, spanning from 3.3 million to 11,000 years ago. In this video, we dive into the early human innovations, society, and wildlife, covering Africa, ...

The drawings differ from many of the prehistoric cave paintings discovered from the Upper Paleolithic period in that they are completely geometric and do not depict humans, animals, or any other ...

New research from Tel Aviv University suggests prehistoric children were joint creators of European cave art, fulfilling a spiritual role for their communities ...

In a cave overlooking the ocean on the southern coast of South Africa, archaeologists discovered thousands of stone tools, ...