“If we look specifically at head hair, we can see that it is styled,” Berman wrote. “The most famous Venus figurine, the ...

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I was fortunate to have traveled America’s blue highways in the golden age of roadside attractions. The year I fell in love ...

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 ...

"Słupcio" — or "little guy from Słupsk" in Polish — is the name given to the amber bear in 2013, when a Polish kindergartner ...

Previously, the use of ivory was thought to date back about 120,000 years. But a new study, published in the International ...

In a cave overlooking the ocean on the southern coast of South Africa, archaeologists discovered thousands of stone tools, ...

A team of archeologists in South Africa had to climb to new heights to find an important set of tools made by humans about 20 ...

A six-foot-tall standing ceremonial stone in a Derbyshire forest had one archaeology enthusiast searching for more. Well, ...

Stone tools found from Robberg technocomplex indicate that Ice Age humans hunted and shared knowledge across large area ...

Similarities in fabrication techniques suggest that Paleolithic people passed on their methods - and may have shared them ...

Whether for cooking, heating, as a light source or for making tools -- it is assumed that fire was essential for the survival of people in the Ice Age. However, it is puzzling that hardly any ...