More than 40 years of scholarly life have accustomed 64-year-old Chinese archaeologist Li Zhanyang to documenting his career ...

The prevalence of seagrass throughout human civilisation has fostered spiritual and cultural relations with these underwater ...

Our ancestors’ ability to recognize water sources was crucial to their survival. As a result, the attraction to lustrous ...

Evidence from a prehistoric site at the shore of the Dnister river in modern-day Ukraine shows that people living during the ...

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 ...

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

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

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

A new study unveils the potential reason children participated in creating prehistoric cave art. In prehistoric societies, ...

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

The team made the daily climb with all their excavation and photography equipment, weighing up to 50 pounds per person.

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