A tiny head carved from mammoth ivory looks back at us from the Stone Age. This sculpture, discovered at the archaeological ...

From stunning artwork to evidence of elaborate prehistoric butchering, Live Science takes a look at seven amazing caves that ...

The Dolní Věstonice Portrait Head features a woman’s face with carefully engraved details like her eyes, nose, mouth and ...

But Stone Age families likely had a relatively manageable amount of children. On average, hunter-gatherer women gave birth to ...

“Humans are complex creatures with nuanced behaviours ... which she hopes will give new answers about the behaviours and practices surrounding ochre use during the Middle Stone Age. “Perhaps it paints ...

The human Stone Age was, undeniably, the first step on a journey towards the species total technological dominance – but it didn’t have to be. After all, pick a rock that’s too soft, or too wonky, and ...

Archaeologists discovered a pile of 15 human skulls in a Neolithic village ... Radiocarbon dating from some of the 400 bone fragments had an age range from 5618 to 5335 B.C. This indicated that ...

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The Stone Age societies at Gesher Benot Ya’akov knew their environment better than modern humans and had different technologies and practices for hunting and for the collection and processing of ...