Early humans of the Middle Paleolithic period, which lasted from about 2,50,000 to 30,000 years ago, and was characterised by flake tools and the widespread use of fire, consumed a more varied diet ...

Levallois technology: A method for knapping stone that is characteristic of the Middle Paleolithic. A nodule of stone is flaked to produce a core with two faces, one of which is highly convex.

It was made around 12,000 years ago. The Stone Age artist used a sharp stone to scratch the outline of a horse onto a piece of bone. Evidence from elsewhere in Europe shows that people living in ...

The two species began burying their dead at roughly the same time and place. Now some archaeologists think competition may have played a role in burials.

Shimelmitz, Ron Kuhn, Steven L. Ronen, Avraham Weinstein-Evron, Mina and Petraglia, Michael D. 2014. Predetermined Flake Production at the Lower/Middle Paleolithic ...

His death made headlines around the world, with much of the salacious reporting focusing on the ‘Stone Age’, ‘uncontacted’ ...

Eswatini in southern Africa is home to the world’s oldest ochre mine. A new study dates that mine to a full 48,000 years ago.

Today, we are smothered in a fake storyline, a fake origin myth for economics. Margaret Thatcher typifies this attitude. You ...

Paleolithic artists across the world were always careful to note that ... The Asian societies met it very well. The Middle Eastern societies met it very well. They had a system that was able to keep ...

The studies in this wide-ranging volume focus on the analysis of stone artefacts and industries and on the ways these can be used to throw light on human behaviour from the earliest times. They have a ...

A recent experimental study led by Kent State University and the Cleveland Museum of Natural History suggests that hunting from elevated positions significantly increases the performance of thrown ...