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

In fact, a fragment of a 1.2-million-year-old toothpick is perhaps the earliest direct evidence we have of hominins using plants as tools ... and the dawn of the Stone Age over 3 million years ...

Using tools seems like second nature for humans today, but our prehistoric ancestors didn't acquire this practical skill set ...

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 ...

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 ...

Jan Ritch-Frel: Alex Marshack was well-known for his idea that many of the social institutions we live by today are derived in large part from the “thought matrix of the Paleolithic”—the ...

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. Ochre is a clay-based pigment that was incredibly popular at that ...

Jan Ritch-Frel: Alex Marshack was well-known for his idea that many of the social institutions we live by today are derived in large part from the “thought matrix of the Paleolithic”—the ideas and ...

Archaeologists in Trelleborg found a Bronze Age burial mound with gold rings, a Stone Age home with tools and other ancient ruins. Photo from Archaeologists SHM / Sydsvensk Arkeologi AB via ...

“I am at a top London hospital and yet at times I feel as though we are operating in the stone age,” one doctor tells the FT. For example, doctors email lists of patients to themselves to ...