Show more Greg Jenner is joined in the Palaeolithic era by Dr Isobel Wisher and comedian Seán Burke to learn about cave art. Tens of thousands of years ago, human ancestors all over the world ...

To try and reconstruct the ways in which these projectiles might have been used, the researchers analyzed the ballistic properties of more than 500 Palaeolithic arrowheads from 25 different sites ...

It was made sometime between 60,000 and 40,000 years ago (during the Middle Palaeolithic) and was part of the tool kit used by Neanderthals. Handaxes are thought to have been used primarily for ...

"He said, 'You should go and take a look. There might be artifacts from the Paleolithic period'." Upon arriving at the village, Li was greeted by a trove of fossils covered in riverbank mud ...

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 ...

Seventeen decorated caves of the Paleolithic age were inscribed as an extension to the Altamira Cave, inscribed in 1985. The property will now appear on the List as Cave of Altamira and Paleolithic ...

Why study Paleolithic technology? What can old stone tools, ancient fire pits, and painted cave walls tell us about our evolutionary past? Humans occupy a rarified position in the modern world.

Shimelmitz, Ron Kuhn, Steven L. Ronen, Avraham Weinstein-Evron, Mina and Petraglia, Michael D. 2014. Predetermined Flake Production at the Lower/Middle Paleolithic ...

Morin, Eugène Laroulandie, Véronique and Smith, Fred H. 2012. Presumed Symbolic Use of Diurnal Raptors by Neanderthals. PLoS ONE, Vol. 7, Issue. 3, p. e32856.

The basis of many Upper Paleolithic tool forms from both the Old and New Worlds was the blade flake, a thin, parallel-sided flake that is at least twice as long as it is wide. Blade flakes were ...

Modern Japanese appear to be genetically descended from the Paleolithic Minatogawa people, according to DNA analysis of human remains in Okinawa Prefecture dating from 20,000 years ago. According ...