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, ...

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

The Stone Age was a prehistoric period that lasted more than 3 million years, from the point when human ancestors began using stone tools until the time we invented metalworking. Archaeologists often ...

The findings, described in the journal Nature, push back the earliest known date for controlled fire-making by roughly ...

Humanity's Stone Age ancestors, long thought to have practiced a prehistoric version of the Atkins diet, may have eaten a balanced diet after all. Wear patterns and starch grains found on ...

Researchers uncovered rare azurite traces on a Final Paleolithic artifact, overturning assumptions that early Europeans used ...

The color blue is hard to come by. Unlike red, yellow, and white, which occur readily in mineral form, blue is a rarity. For prehistoric people living in western Eurasia, an area roughly covering ...

Archaeologists excavating a paleolithic cave site in Galilee, Israel, have found evidence that a deep-cave compound at the site may have been used for ritualistic gatherings, according to a new paper ...

If you need more evidence that the logic behind the Paleo diet is flawed, look no further than this new study showing that ancient Europeans went to great lengths to process and cook carbs. Today's ...

Around 33,000 years ago, a man was bludgeoned to death in a cave in Romania, a team of scientists has said. After examining fractures on a fossilized skull dating to the Upper Paleolithic, the team ...