Learning to control fire was a game-changer for ancient humans, who could use it to cook food, see at night, and endure cold ...

Differences between the fireplaces suggest a clever and intentional use. Whether it was used for cooking, heating, lighting, ...

A new study published in Geoarchaeology reveals that Ice Age humans crafted hearths in the frozen steppe of Ukraine with such finesse that they achieved temperatures over 600°C. These were deliberate, ...

Nancy Kellogg, president of Colorado chapter of the ARCS Foundation, with treasurer Shirleen Tucker.

Those comparisons, laid out in a paper published in Quaternary Science Reviews, point to a surprising conclusion: the Baume ...

Two of these periods, around 25,000 and 23,000 years ago, coincide with the Last Glacial Maximum. The Last Glacial Maximum, which lasted from 26,500 to 19,000 years ago, was the most severe phase ...

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

Giant icebergs once scraped the seafloor near Britain, offering clues about ancient ice shelves and future sea-level rise.

While the surveyed flint workshops from Tsakhiurtyn Hundi are mainly dated to the Pleistocene, some settlements from the paleolake shores provide evidence of a post-Last Glacial Maximum (LGM ...

Similar Palaeolithic dogs have emerged at sites in Germany, Spain, and Belgium. The 14,000-year-old remains at Bonn-Oberkassel, for instance, included a partial skeleton that was buried with humans.