Researchers from several European institutions, led by scientists from the University of Barcelona and the University of Alcalá, have demonstrated that the hunter-gatherers who inhabited the interior ...
A new analysis of “il Principe,” an ancient, decorated skeleton found in northwest Italy, confirms that the child died up to ...
Could it be that our Paleolithic forebears were more than artists and hunters, that they were also the world’s earliest hydraulic engineers? The finding at the Ségognole 3 rock shelter in France’s ...
The return of humans to the British Isles after the end of the last ice sheet, which covered much of the northern hemisphere, happened around 15,200 years ago—nearly 500 years earlier than previous ...
Building the human story based on a few artefacts is tricky – particularly for wooden tools that don’t preserve well, or cave ...
a policy article published in the journal Science in October 2011, Spanish scientists argued against the reopening of Altamira Cave, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The cave contains multicolored cave ...
Why do people wear clothes, and when did they start doing so? To answer this fundamental question, archaeologist Ian Gilligan of the University of Sydney went back to the beginning. “There’s little ...
Located in the Southern Ural Mountains of Bashkortostan, the Shulgan-Tash Cave contains extensive Late Palaeolithic rock art. Set within a karst massif near the Belaya and Shulgan Rivers, it features ...
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