Parents in the Ice Age let their kids get away with some pretty wild stuff.

A new research suggests that cheek piercings were popular as long ago as 30,000 years, with teenagers and children as young ...

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 group of Ice Age hunter-gatherers living in central Europe may have adorned their faces with cheek piercings at as early as ...

Science writer Elena Bridgers researches a style of “Paleolithic parenting” practiced ... these huge families,” Bridgers says. But Stone Age families likely had a relatively manageable ...

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 ...

A study of Paleolithic skeletons from Central Europe suggests people's teeth were worn down and crowded together because of ...

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.

Earlier work in the rock shelter has shown that the sandstone had been worked in the Late Paleolithic period to create images of horses and a female form that included an outflow of water.

Engraved with concentric circles and solar rays, Vasagård's “sun stones” may have been made and buried in response to a volcanic eruption. (Credit: National Museum of Denmark) To the Stone Age ...

According to the study, Stone Age farmers who depended on the sun for their harvests may have carved solar designs on stones to acknowledge their reliance on the sun, then buried the sun stones as ...