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

Thousands of stone tools discovered in a South African cave reveal that Ice Age humans had developed ... according to a report in the Journal of Paleolithic Archaeology. Looking closely at the ...

Archaeologists previously assumed that East Asia did not see considerable tool development during the Middle Paleolithic, but ...

Related: Archaeologists Find Well-Preserved Bronze Age Daggers Eleven of the ... and diversely used starting in the Upper Paleolithic—primarily for tools and ornaments—from around 40,000 ...

new kinds of stone tools that were smaller but could be used for many tasks and lasted for a long time. Archaeologists like me are interested in the Middle Paleolithic — a period spanning ...

Archaeologists have thought that ancient people in East Asia completely skipped the Middle Paleolithic. Our discovery challenges the long-standing notion that while ancient people in Europe and Africa ...

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 ...

While the Paleolithic period involved a nomadic lifestyle and the invention of stone tools, the Neolithic period was ushered in with the development of agriculture and settled communities.

But a new study, published in the International Journal of Osteoarchaeology, analyzed artifacts from the Lower Paleolithic era found at the ... compared to stone tools of similar size due to ...