Long before ships sailed the oceans or factories hunted whales for oil, humans living near the Bay of Biscay were already ...

A groundbreaking new study has shattered previous conceptions about Paleolithic humans, proving they exploited marine resources for hunting tools and food as early as 20,000 years ago—much ...

Fragment of projectile point from the cave site of Isturitz (Pyrénées-Atlantiques, France), made of bone from right whale or bowhead whale, dated to 17,300-16,700 years before present, curated at the ...

This mammoth tusk boomerang was discovered in Layer VIII of the Upper Paleolithic cave site. Interestingly, this ancient ...

How did Paleolithic people arrive at such remote islands as Okinawa? How difficult was their journey? And what tools and ...

Ancient scavengers of the beached beasts turned their bones into implements that spread across a large area, researchers say.

A team of archaeologists from the Austrian Archaeological Institute has discovered in Langmannersdorf, a town in Lower Austria, northeast of St. Pölten, the remains of at least five mammoths that were ...

Along with the wooden weapons, the site held over 1,500 flint tools and the butchered remains of over 50 horses. That collection of clues essentially provides “unequivocal evidence” that Neanderthals ...

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 ...

The Stone Age was a prehistoric period that lasted more than 3 million years, from the point when human ancestors began using stone tools until the time we invented metalworking.. Archaeologists ...

Archaeologists in Ukraine have discovered a set of ivory tools which scientists believe dates back nearly 400,000 years, about 280,000 years earlier than previously thought.