Archaeologists in Tajikistan have discovered a rock-shelter that may have been a migration site for Neanderthals, Denisovans, ...

Researchers has uncovered never before seen details in a set of prehistoric stone objects that feature a variety of artworks.

MR. BURKITT'S “Old Stone Age”, a textbook for students, may for the purposes of a wider public be regarded as a progress report. Although it is a study of the period as a whole, and as such is ...

A Soviet zoologist with a passion for long-extinct mammals set out to reinvigorate the landscape of the Caucasus in the 20th ...

Britain has a rich and well-documented earlier Palaeolithic record, which provides a unique resource to investigate population dynamics and the relationship with north-west Europe during the Middle ...

Recent excavations in Tajikistan's Zeravshan Valley uncovered an archaeological site dating back as far as 150,000 years, ...

A series of ancient drawings at a Palaeolithic site in Germany appear to show fish caught in nets, suggesting that the use of this fishing technology may go back further than previously thought.

This book is a long-term history of how the human body has been understood in Europe from the Palaeolithic to the present day, focusing on specific moments of change. Developing a multi-scalar ...

R eports of mass looting at Sudan's National Museum amid the ongoing civil war have shocked the cultural heritage community.

Chalice well is considered to be a place of spirituality and many believe its waters have healing properties. In Christianity ...

A Japanese carrion crow examines the fruit of its labors On the Pacific island of New Caledonia, the crows demonstrate a tool-making, and tool using, capability comparable to Palaeolithic man’s.