Scientists examining an ancient cave have made a discovery about humanity's history that dates back some 110,000 years.

Researchers have discovered what may be the world’s oldest 3D map, located within a quartzitic sandstone megaclast in the ...

The first-ever published research on Tinshemet Cave reveals that Neanderthals and Homo sapiens in the mid-Middle Paleolithic ...

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 ...

An Upper Palaeolithic site like this is practically nonexistent. An impressive 277 flint tools, metamorphic rocks, quartz, and hundreds of bones were recovered. Furthermore, researchers found the ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Ficron was found on a beach having been washed out of a cliff face, it is one of the largest in existance and would have been used to kill and butcher steppe mammoth and rhino which roamed ...

Israeli researchers have uncovered several human burials in a cave in central Israel dating back to the mid-Middle ...

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 ...