For more than 1 million years, early humans in the Levant region of the eastern Mediterranean used a range of heavy tools, ...

Archaeologists found a Paleolithic rock shelter with hundreds of stone tools, blades and bones in a river valley, photos show and a study said. Photo from Zaidner and Kurbanov (2024) Walking through a ...

As long as 220,000 years ago—far earlier than previously thought—people quarried rocks for their tools in places they ...

The color blue is hard to come by. Unlike red, yellow, and white, which occur readily in mineral form, blue is a rarity. For prehistoric people living in western Eurasia, an area roughly covering ...

Deogarh: Evidence of a Middle Paleolithic human settlement has been discovered for the first time in Deogarh district, researchers said Monday. A joint team from the postgraduate (PG) department of ...

Early humans were quarrying stone in southern Africa over 200,000 years ago, reveals new research. People quarried rocks for their tools in places they specifically sought out thousands of years ...

An international research team led by the University of Tübingen has documented at the Jojosi site, in eastern South Africa, ...

A team of archaeologists from the Universitat Jaume I, the University of Barcelona, and the Catalan Institution for Research and Advanced Studies (ICREA) has developed a new methodology that allows ...

In a rugged landscape in central Spain, archaeologists have discovered a unique granite cobblestone marked with a red ochre dot that preserves the mark of a Neandertal fingerprint. Dating back ...