An archeological discovery sheds new light on prehistoric cooking and raises questions as to the validity of the basis of ...

To try and reconstruct the ways in which these projectiles might have been used, the researchers analyzed the ballistic properties of more than 500 Palaeolithic arrowheads from 25 different sites ...

A 6-year-old’s beach find turns out to be a 60,000-year-old Neanderthal hand axe, now displayed in Worthing Museum.

Archaeologists Discover the World’s Oldest 3D Map Inside a Cave, Hosts Three Different Styles of Ancient Art A cave shelter near Paris that was known to be home to interesting Palaeolithic art was ...

The latest stage in the Palaeolithic era is that of the Upper Palaeolithic Cultures, in which important technological advances were made, such as the invention of flint tools and fine-edged blades. It ...

One of the best loved of all these tales is the one about Don Marcelino de Sautuola and his young daughter and their discovery of the Altamira cave paintings—the first important group of Palaeolithic ...

The Ségognole 3 rock shelter, known since the 1980s for its artistic engravings of two horses in a Late Palaeolithic style on either side of a female pubic figuration, has now been revealed to ...

Now, a team found that part of the floor of the sandstone shelter was also potentially shaped and adapted by a group of Palaeolithic humans about 13,000 years ago. They believe that the 3D map ...

Cannibalistic Europeans likely feasted on their deceased loved ones at funerals instead of burying them, according to a new study. Scientists now believe that cannibalism was widespread among ...

Britain has a rich and well-documented earlier Palaeolithic record, which provides a unique resource to investigate population dynamics and the relationship with north-west Europe during the Middle ...

It was made sometime between 60,000 and 40,000 years ago (during the Middle Palaeolithic) and was part of the tool kit used by Neanderthals. Handaxes are thought to have been used primarily for ...

Researchers have discovered what may be the world's oldest three-dimensional map, located within a quartzitic sandstone megaclast in the Paris Basin. Researchers have discovered what may be the ...