Why study Paleolithic technology? What can old stone tools, ancient fire pits, and painted cave walls tell us about our evolutionary past? Humans occupy a rarified position in the modern world.

Paleolithic ingenuity: 13,000-year-old 3D map discovered in France by Lara Pacillo, University of Adelaide View of the three-dimensional map on the Ségognole 3 cave floor.

A groundbreaking archaeological discovery reveals a 13,000-year-old 3D map carved into sandstone. This prehistoric model, ...

They took a hands-on approach, and crafted replicas of tools that might have been used in the Early Upper Paleolithic age (about 38,000–30,000 years ago). The findings are published in the ...

This is the first discovery of its kind in North China from the Paleolithic period. "Traditionally, we believed stone tool making was simply a matter of subtraction, changing the shape of the ...

Earlier work in the rock shelter has shown that the sandstone had been worked in the Late Paleolithic period to create images of horses and a female form that included an outflow of water.

A groundbreaking discovery in France has revealed what may be the world’s oldest three-dimensional map, created by ...