The recently discovered Soii Havzak rock shelter in Central Asia is extremely rare and potentially groundbreaking because it holds several phases of Paleolithic occupation: Denisovans ...

The Ségognole 3 rock shelter, known since the 1980s for its artistic engravings of two horses in a Late Paleolithic style on either side of a female pubic figuration, has now been revealed to ...

Ben Marwick During the Middle Paleolithic—a period spanning about 40,000 to 300,000 years ago, also called the Middle Stone Age—groups such as modern humans, Neanderthals and Denisovans ...