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 ...

A new study sheds light on how prehistoric hunter-gatherer populations in Europe coped with climate changes over 12,000 years ago. Led by scientists from the University of Cologne, a team of 25 ...

What would motivate Upper Paleolithic hunter-gatherers to bring toddlers ... groups view caves as gateways to the underworld or wombs of the Earth Mother, Paleolithic people likely saw caves as sacred ...

Ice Age climate shifts triggered major population changes in prehistoric Europe through migration and adaptation.

Modern scholars believe up to 40 percent of the general population of Upper Paleolithic humans were children or young adults. In some decorated caves, they determined that up to 9% of the ...

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