Anthropologists have uncovered a 38,000-year-old engraved image in a rock shelter in France - a finding that marks some of the earliest known graphic imagery in Western Eurasia. The findings provide a ...

Archaeologists have discovered that prehistoric tools and artwork from western Europe owe their existence to an even earlier culture in the Middle East. Carbon dating of a cave in Israel supports a ...

Early modern humans could have spent their evenings sitting around the fire, playing bone flutes and singing songs 40,000 years ago, newly discovered ancient musical instruments indicate. The bone ...

An archaeological study describes symbolic objects of the Levantine Aurignacian culture. The Levantine Aurignacian culture exhibits similarities with the Aurignacian culture in Eurasia. However, the ...

Early modern humans could have spent their evenings sitting around the fire, playing bone flutes and singing songs 40,000 years ago, newly discovered ancient musical instruments indicate. The bone ...

Some of the earliest prehistoric art in western Eurasia has been discovered in a limestone slab from a rock shelter in south-west France, showing an image of a large long-extinct species similar to ...

Abri Cellier is a major site dating back more than 35,000 years ago located in the Vézère Valley in southern France. It is considered to be one of the major art-bearing sites for the Aurignacian ...

This stone engraving of an aurochs, or wild cow, found in a French rock-shelter in 2012, provides glimpses of an ancient human culture’s spread across Central and Western Europe, researchers say. Rows ...

More than 50 years ago, Henri Delporte excavated a French cave known as Grotte des Fées at Châtelperron. He unearthed many large stone tools characteristic of Neandertals as well as a surprise: small, ...