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

Stone Age artefacts discovered in Levant caves have revealed intentionally etched geometric designs, providing new evidence ...

There is mounting evidence indicating that symbolic and abstract thought may have deep evolutionary origins and not just a ...

About 8,500 years ago, a 5'6" man with size 11 feet walked along the Severn Estuary at 2.6 miles per hour carrying a heavy load on his right shoulder. Archaeologists deduced all this from a series of ...

Early Stone Age: A time period lasting from about 2.6 ... The expensive-tissue hypothe­sis: The brain and digestive system in human and primate evolu­tion. Current Anthropology 36, 199-221 ...

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 ...

An archeological discovery sheds new light on prehistoric cooking and raises questions as to the validity of the basis of ...

A new study demonstrates that certain incised stone artifacts from the Levantine ... indicating advanced cognitive and symbolic behavior among early humans. In contrast, artifacts from Amud ...

Stone Age humans certainly ate a variety of meat ... been thought to have been the main force in the development of early human technologies and society. In the study, the authors argue that ...

"We reveal how early humans -- known as hominins -- were able ... availability such as ponds and developed specialized stone tools. Co-author Dr. Jed Kaplan, PhD, a Canada Research Chair in ...

open image in gallery One of the small Stone Age flint cutting tools recovered ... and agriculture have destroyed huge quantities of early human archaeology. In Britain 99 per cent of human ...