Researchers have uncovered a 35,000-year-old ritual complex deep within Manot Cave, located in the Western Galilee, Israel. This finding represents one of the earliest known examples of communal ...

Photo from ongoing excavations of the Ahmarian deposits in 1938. Credit: Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University, 998-27-40/14628.1.30 A joint investigation by the universities ...

Our ancestors’ ability to recognize water sources was crucial to their survival. As a result, the attraction to lustrous materials is deeply rooted in our evolutionary history and is evident among ...

According to Randall White, early humans manipulated materials to create objects for visual pleasure, a phenomenon exemplified by the members of the Aurignacian culture who actively sought out and ...

What it tells us about the past: Archaeologists excavating Hohle Fels cave in southwestern Germany over two decades ago discovered three tiny figurines carved out of mammoth ivory. Dated to around ...

Early humans living in the southern Levant, including Israel, did not create the kind of exquisite cave art that their descendants drew in France, Spain and other parts of Europe, because the huge ...

JERUSALEM, Dec. 10 (Xinhua) -- Israeli archaeologists have discovered a 35,000-year-old prehistoric ritual complex in Manot Cave, Western Galilee, said a joint statement on Tuesday by the Israel ...

A rare prehistoric ritual complex has been uncovered in the darkest depths of Manot Cave in the Western Galilee, Israel. The complex is enclosed naturally by impressive stalagmites that create a ...

An interdisciplinary research team from the University of Cologne’s Institute of Geophysics and Meteorology and the Department of Prehistoric Archaeology has developed a new model, the “Our Way Model” ...

A new study shows that parts of central Europe were repopulated some 3,000 years earlier than previously thought following the inhospitable conditions of the last ice age. The ice age lasted from ...

An international team of researchers, including the Institute of Archaeology of Mérida (IAM), the Archaeobotany Laboratory of the Institute of Heritage Sciences (INCIPIT-CSIC), and other institutions, ...