Explore the Paleolithic era, the dawn of humanity, spanning from 3.3 million to 11,000 years ago. In this video, we dive into ...

About 40,000 years ago, near the dawn of the 30-millennia-long period known as the Upper Paleolithic ... ever-emerging technological evidence Stone Age humans left behind. In this interactive ...

Archaeologists previously assumed that East Asia did not see considerable tool development during the Middle Paleolithic, but new findings might change that widely held idea ...

In addition, once cumulative culture is firmly in place within a population (see Middle Stone Age/Middle Paleolithic below), technologies will begin to reflect population-level differences as a ...

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 ...