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 ...

Sembur also has Iron Age-era evidence. Tools possibly from Middle Paleolithic period CHENNAI: Students from University of Madras have found evidence of a middle Paleolithic-era site at Sembur near ...

Archaeologists often break up this lengthy time span into three periods — the Paleolithic (3.3 million to 12,000 years ago), the Mesolithic (12,000 to 10,000 years ago), and the Neolithic ...

According to Pettitt, there are more than 30 non-figurative signs in paleolithic art, but study coauthor Bennett Bacon – a furniture conservator and independent researcher who made the initial ...

In 1863, the East India Company’s Geological Survey team found a paleolithic site at Attirampakkam near Madras (present-day Chennai) with bifacial hand-axes made of stone by early humans. The ...

When we think about the people of the Paleolithic age, many of us tend to picture a primitive fight for survival.Their lives are often depicted simply as a search for food and shelter, bereft of ...

The Stone Age objects, which are made of flint, could potentially be about 10,000-14,000 years old, according to archaeologists.

Marshack was working from the Paleolithic forward, the time before the last Ice Age, to see how it shaped the Neolithic and Near Eastern Bronze Age. My approach was to study the Bronze Age because my ...

Archaeologists have discovered more than 110 prehistoric cave paintings and engravings dating to at least 24,000 years ago near Valencia, Spain. The Paleolithic, or Stone Age, rock art is ...

Under the aegis of the University of Oslo, an international research team has extracted and analyzed plant DNA from the sediments of the Armenian "Aghitu-3" cave. About 40,000 to 25,000 years ago ...

Lines, dots and other symbols painted in caves during the last Ice Age may be the earliest example of proto writing – symbols that communicate a small amount of information like an emoji.