A groundbreaking new study has shattered previous conceptions about Paleolithic humans, proving they exploited ...

Today, the Bay of Biscay has been swallowed by the sea, but in ancient times, it was an important path for hunter-gatherers.

Stone Age humans scavenged the skeletons of several whale species along the Bay of Biscay in what is now southwestern France ...

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

About 20,000 years ago, when Europe was frozen in the final chill of the Ice Age, mysterious giants periodically washed up on the Atlantic shores of modern northern Spain and southwestern France.

Researchers have found that a spear tip carved from bone, unearthed from Russia in 2003, is as old as 80,000 years.

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 ...

Mammoth remains, tusks and tools. Credit: Marc Händel / ÖAW-ÖAI ... The find provides valuable insights into the hunting techniques and subsistence strategies of Upper Paleolithic human communities, ...

Other research has placed small bands of those early humans throughout Europe and Central Asia during the Middle Paleolithic. During that time, neanderthals created tools and showed signs of organized ...

"The miniature ivory pieces from Medzhibozh A are rare even in Upper Paleolithic contexts and perform poorly compared to stone tools of similar size due to their low hardness and fragility,” Ste ...

Prehistoric sites in Europe that host similar tools are associated with Neanderthals. Ben Marwick During the Middle Paleolithic—a period spanning about 40,000 to 300,000 years ago, also called ...