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 ...

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Archaeologists have unearthed a set of "truly significant" Stone Age artifacts during an excavation being conducted ahead of planned road improvement in northern England, researchers told Newsweek.

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 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 ...

The color blue is hard to come by. Unlike red, yellow, and white, which occur readily in mineral form, blue is a rarity. For prehistoric people living in western Eurasia, an area roughly covering ...

Until now, at least 14 different species have been assigned to the genus Homo since it emerged in Ethiopia some 2.8 million years ago revealing branching evolutionary stories of survival, intermixing, ...

Paleolithic human populations survived even in the coldest and driest upland parts of Spain, according to a new study. Paleolithic human populations survived even in the coldest and driest upland ...

Part I published as American School of Prehistoric Research bulletin no. 49, 2007. Contents The Mousterian lithic assemblages from Kebara Cave / Liliane Meignen -- Dietary and health issues of the ...