The site has three layers that contain a period in early human history that doesn’t really exist in Central Asia, or, at least, is extremely rare. An Upper Palaeolithic site like this is ...

Experts say Neanderthal children, who lived between 400,000 and 40,000 years ago, and modern human children living during the Upper Palaeolithic era – between 50,000 and 12,000 years ago – may ...

About 40,000 years ago, near the dawn of the 30-millennia-long period known as the Upper Paleolithic, the first anatomically modern humans suddenly and mysteriously revolutionized their cultures ...

A newly excavated cave in Israel holds burials and artifacts suggesting that multiple human species commingled and shared ...

A team of archaeologists from the Austrian Archaeological Institute has discovered in Langmannersdorf, a town in Lower ...

The meaning of a symbol is shared by a group of people, or a culture. Language is symbolic in nature, because most words do not resemble their referents. Upper Paleolithic: An archaeological phase ...

2010), as well as a much higher population density among Upper Paleolithic modern humans compared to Neanderthals (Mellars & French 2011). Conard, N. C. & Bolus, M. Radiocarbon dating the late ...

The basis of many Upper Paleolithic tool forms from both the ... of stone spear point and to the culture of the North American people who used such weapons to devastating effect against large ...