Learn how ancient pottery covered in flowers may be humanity’s first attempts at mathematical thinking.

New research led by the British Museum has found evidence of the world’s oldest human fire-making activity in Barnham, ...

Over 8,000 years ago, early farming communities in northern Mesopotamia were already thinking mathematically—long before ...

The rare artifacts reveal secrets of early Neolithic farming and daily life. New evidence uncovered at a dig site in Huesca, ...

The practice of substituting humans with primates reaches back into art history.

Researchers investigate hundreds of motifs made by Halafians and determine that they exhibited mathematical themes.

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A new study published in the Journal of World Prehistory reveals that some of humanity's earliest artistic representations of ...

From domestication to art, here’s a look at 14 fascinating things humans were up to 10,000 years ago. The domestication of ...

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