The discovery of ivory tools at Medzhybizh A challenges previous timelines of early human technology. These artifacts suggest ...

An archaeological site in Germany suggests communal hunting and complex thinking emerged earlier in human evolution than once thought.

Ice age ancestors used sophisticated fireplaces by creating different hearths to light fires for various purposes.

Our ancestors’ ability to recognize water sources was crucial to their survival. As a result, the attraction to lustrous ...

Archaeological records indicate that prehistoric people in Europe relied on fire throughout the Ice Age—but the evidence ...

Theopetra Cave, in Greece, believed to be the oldest human construction on earth, reopened to the public after 9 years of ...

Evidence from a prehistoric site at the shore of the Dnister river in modern-day Ukraine shows that people living during the ...

Whether for cooking, heating, as a light source or for making tools -- it is assumed that fire was essential for the survival of people in the Ice Age. However, it is puzzling that hardly any ...

A recent archaeological discovery in Ukraine has rewritten the timeline for when human beings began using ivory to construct ...

Traveling East might have been an appropriate tendency for early humans living in what is now Europe near the end of the Ice Age. A team of researchers describe how populations shifted in size, ...

An archaeological study of human settlement during the Final Palaeolithic ... population estimates for the preceding periods of the Upper Palaeolithic. When the climate turned much colder during ...