Archeologists Discover Hundreds of Decorated Stone Artifacts on an Island, Offered it to Gods to Banish ‘Darkened Sun’ Archaeologists believe that to wade off the bad effects of a volcanic eruption, ...

New study shows Middle Paleolithic people intentionally decorated stone tools, offering evidence that abstract thinking began ...

A new study demonstrates that certain incised stone artifacts from the Levantine Middle Paleolithic, specifically from Manot, Qafzeh, and Quneitra caves, were deliberately engraved with geometric ...

A groundbreaking pilot excavation in the Iraqi desert uncovered over 850 Stone Age artifacts up to 1.5 million years old, shedding new light on human evolution in the Arabian Peninsula. An ...

There is increasing evidence to suggest that symbolic and abstract thought may have deep evolutionary roots and was not exclusive to modern humans.

A pilot project to scan the surface material of an Iraqi desert revealed 850 different artifacts from the Old and Middle ...

A recent study has shed new light on the cognitive and cultural complexity of human societies during the Middle Paleolithic ...

Hundreds of stone artifacts discovered on a Danish island may have been offered to the gods to ward off a climate crisis. A volcanic eruption in 2910 B.C. may be the reason Neolithic people on a ...

Interestingly, all the artifacts were found on the surface of the ground, not buried deep in the soil. These artifacts ...

An excavation site at Olorgesailie reveals stone artifacts found in the sand and silt.[Photo by Zhang Mingxiao/For China Daily] Located 90 kilometers southwest of Kenya's capital Nairobi lies the ...

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