Around 40,000 years ago, Paleolithic people inscribed bone with symbols that appear to be part of some sort of writing system ...

A statistical analysis of a series of signs carved into artifacts from around 40,000 years ago suggests humans developed proto-writing in the Stone Age.

New archaeological evidence challenges the popular image of Paleolithic humans as predominantly meat-eaters. If you imagine early humans living on big game alone, new research says that picture is ...

Thousands of stone tools discovered in a South African cave reveal that Ice Age humans had developed sophisticated fabrication techniques about 20,000 years ago, according to a report in the Journal ...

Rows of tiny crosses and dots run along the flank of a mammoth no bigger than your palm. Someone carved it from a tusk around ...

Paleolithic animal paintings in Font-de-Gaume Cave, Dordogne, France. DORDOGNE, FRANCE—La Brújula Verde reports that Paleolithic rock art in southwestern France’s Font-de-Gau ...

More than 40,000 years ago, Ice Age humans were carving repeated patterns of dots, lines, and crosses into tools and small ivory figurines. A new computational study of more than 3,000 of these ...

Over 40,000 years ago, our early ancestors were already carving signs into tools and sculptures. According to a new analysis by linguist Christian Bentz at Saarland University and archaeologist Ewa ...

Until now, at least 14 different species have been assigned to the genus Homo since it emerged in Ethiopia some 2.8 million years ago, revealing branching evolutionary stories of survival, intermixing ...

New research along Turkey’s Ayvalık coast reveals a once-submerged land bridge that may have helped early humans cross from Anatolia into Europe. Archaeologists uncovered 138 Paleolithic tools across ...

"Peopling of the Americas publications." "Arising from a 2011 symposium sponsored by the National Museum of Nature and Science in Tokyo, this manuscript gathers the work of archaeologists from the ...