Researchers has uncovered never before seen details in a set of prehistoric stone objects that feature a variety of artworks.
Walking through a river valley in central Asia, a team of archaeologists scanned the craggy landscape for anything that ...
Today, we are smothered in a fake storyline, a fake origin myth for economics. Margaret Thatcher typifies this attitude. You ...
The Ice Age camp site of Gönnersdorf on the banks of the Rhine has revealed a groundbreaking discovery that sheds new light ...
We tend to think of prehistoric life as hard. Brutal, even. Devoid of pleasure, outside of the odd mammoth steak or math class. But that dour picture tends to be missing something big – or rather, ...
The stones were etched with depictions of ancient fishing practices that had not been recorded in the Upper Paleolithic era, ...
Why study Paleolithic technology? What can old stone tools, ancient fire pits, and painted cave walls tell us about our evolutionary past? Humans occupy a rarified position in the modern world.
Archaeologists and students digging in Blätterhöhle cave uncovered a 9,000-year-old fireplace (above), flint arrowheads and a ...
Jan Ritch-Frel: Alex Marshack was well-known for his idea that many of the social institutions we live by today are derived in large part from the “thought matrix of the Paleolithic”—the ideas and ...
A recently published study reveals the existence of ancient fishing techniques at the Magdalenian site of Gönnersdorf, ...
Researchers have determined that grid-like patterns on schist slabs from Ice Age site of Gönnersdorf in Germany depict fish ...
Shimelmitz, Ron Kuhn, Steven L. Ronen, Avraham Weinstein-Evron, Mina and Petraglia, Michael D. 2014. Predetermined Flake Production at the Lower/Middle Paleolithic ...