Blade cores provided a portable source of stone or obsidian for manufacturing different kinds of tools by flaking off pieces from the core. The basis of many Upper Paleolithic tool forms from both ...

Acheulean: An Earlier Stone Age/Lower Paleolithic tool industry dating ... Toth, N. Making Silent Stones Speak: Human Evolution and the Dawn of Technology. New York, NY: Simon and Schuster ...

Skulls from Paleolithic Europe’s Pavlovian people have long been noted for their damaged teeth, with wear patterns evident ...

For decades, archaeologists have studied the remains of Pavlovian peoples, who lived in Central Europe between 29,000 and ...

A new study demonstrates that certain incised stone artifacts from the Levantine Middle Paleolithic, specifically from Manot, Qafzeh, and Quneitra caves, were deliberately engraved with geometric ...

A recent study has shed new light on the cognitive and cultural complexity of human societies during the Middle Paleolithic in the Levant. The research, led by Dr. Mae Goder-Goldberger (Hebrew ...

But Stone Age families likely had a relatively manageable amount of children. On average, hunter-gatherer women gave birth to ...

Fifteen millennia ago, along the banks of the Rhine River, an artist from the Ice Age etched a fleeting moment into stone—a fish ... of fish consumption by Paleolithic hunter-gatherers is ...

Inside, they found ash and burnt clay, suggesting that the stones were ... to detach thin stone flakes. This is the first discovery of its kind in North China from the Paleolithic period.

The Ségognole 3 rock shelter, known since the 1980s for its artistic engravings of two horses in a Late Paleolithic style ... by people of the Bronze Age around 3,000 years ago.

Perhaps hoping to gain the blessing of the stone-age hunter-gatherers that dwelt along the east ... this was the first time a paleolithic (2.5 million to 11,000 years ago) culture was discovered. A ...