The new study showed that the frequency of people with dark skin was still high in parts of Europe until the Copper Age (also ...

PROF. C. G. SELIGMAN, at a meeting of the Royal Anthropological Institute on January 11, read an important paper on “The Older Palaeolithic Age in Egypt,” embodying the results of an attempt ...

Meanwhile, if you look under the hood of the Bronze Age, the Neolithic that preceded it, and the Paleolithic before it—the evidence overwhelmingly points to a default: mutual aid, and common wealth.

According to these findings, then, European Palaeolithic hunters may have developed ... suitable for poison extraction during the Stone Age.

Researchers have discovered what may be the world’s oldest 3D map, located within a quartzitic sandstone megaclast in the ...

In addition, once cumulative culture is firmly in place within a population (see Middle Stone Age/Middle Paleolithic below), technologies will begin to reflect population-level differences as a ...

This article was originally published with the title “ The Evolution of Paleolithic Art ” in Scientific American Magazine Vol. 218 No. 2 (February 1968), p. 58 doi:10.1038 ...

Advanced radiocarbon dating has provided the most accurate age assessment yet for the “Lapedo Child,” one of the most ...

The basis of many Upper Paleolithic tool forms from both the Old ... For European and American Stone Age peoples, end scrapers served as heavy- duty scraping tools that could have been used ...

The paleolithic diet - or paleo diet - involves eating foods humans would have eaten during the Paleolithic Era - also known ...

New discoveries in Southeast Asia suggest that early humans mastered the art of seafaring and deep-sea fishing 40,000 years ago.

“Our study found a likely genetic continuity among the human populations of the Japanese islands all the way from the Paleolithic age down to the present day,” said Jun Gojobori, a lecturer of ...