The Natufian culture, a bridge between the Paleolithic and Neolithic, marks early settlement, farming, and symbolic art in ...

The earliest evidence of deliberate fire-making by humans was discovered at 400,000-year-old site in Barnham, England, ...

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 ...

Using a specially developed simulation model, researchers at the University of Cologne have traced and analyzed the dynamics ...

The eyed needle — a sewing tool made of bones, antlers or ivory that first appeared around 40,000 years ago in southern Siberia — might be hiding important clues about the beginnings of fashion, a new ...

According to this interpretation, eyed needles, one of the symbols of the Paleolithic age, were not simple tailoring tools but also instruments for the social and cultural development of prehistoric ...

High-resolution replica of a Neanderthal tooth (Le Moustier lower right canine) with developmental enamel defects (hypoplasia) indicated by red arrows. Credit: Kate Mcgrath. High-resolution replica of ...

Archaeologists in Britain say they have found the earliest known evidence of deliberate fire-making, dating to around 400,000 ...

On a windswept plateau in what is now central Ukraine, hunter gatherers facing brutal Ice Age winters did something ...