The findings are significant because determining the timescale of human activity in the Paleolithic period, also known as the ...

Have you ever wondered how many humans have lived and died on planet Earth throughout history? This question has captivated ...

A team of archaeologists affiliated with multiple institutions in Spain has used a new dating technique to more accurately ...

The Bhimbetka rock shelters in central India, spanning the Paleolithic and Mesolithic periods, are a UNESCO World Heritage ...

The study relied on findings from an excavation at the Jaljulya site next to Highway 6 in central Israel, probably inhabited ...

Consequently, the researchers hypothesize that Mounts Ebal and Gerizim (near today’s Shechem) were considered a source of plenty and held sacred by prehistoric hunters as early as the Paleolithic ...

Children of Neanderthals, who lived up to around 40,000 years ago, and modern humans of the Late Paleolithic period between ...

Primitive stone implements have traditionally characterized the Lower Paleolithic period, which lasted from about 2.7 million years ago to 200,000 years ago. Of the thousands of archaeological ...

A new study from Tel Aviv University identified the earliest appearance worldwide of special stone tools, used 400,000 years ...

Fans of the paleo diet believe our bodies are better suited to eat foods consumed by early humans who lived in the Paleolithic age. These foods include lean meat and plants rather than the heavily ...

Neanderthal children (who lived between 400,000 and 40,000 years ago) and modern human children living during the Upper Paleolithic era (between 50,000 and 12,000 years ago) may have faced similar ...

Research team at the University of Tübingen studies teeth for indications of difficult phases in the early years of life several tens of thousands of ...