A research team led by a CNRS researcher has for the first time accurately determined the age of the cave paintings at ...

Around 40,000 years ago, Paleolithic people inscribed bone with symbols that appear to be part of some sort of writing system ...

Rows of tiny crosses and dots run along the flank of a mammoth no bigger than your palm. Someone carved it from a tusk around ...

A statistical analysis of a series of signs carved into artifacts from around 40,000 years ago suggests humans developed proto-writing in the Stone Age.

Deep in a cave near the town of Toirano in northern Italy, archaeologists have uncovered ancient human hand and footprints ...

After these researchers unexpectedly found carbon-based drawings in the Font-de-Gaume cave, they returned to pinpoint when the figures were drawn ...

La Brújula Verde reports that Paleolithic rock art in southwestern France’s Font-de-Gaume Cave has been radiocarbon dated for the first time by a team of researchers led by Ina Reiche of the French ...

Archaeologists have unearthed a set of "truly significant" Stone Age artifacts during an excavation being conducted ahead of planned road improvement in northern England, researchers told Newsweek.

The open rings are about 0.75 inches at the widest part of their opening, the researchers said. Justin Garnett and Frederic Sellet A little over a century ago, archaeologists exploring a Paleolithic ...

New archaeological evidence challenges the popular image of Paleolithic humans as predominantly meat-eaters. If you imagine early humans living on big game alone, new research says that picture is ...

Is the order of the modern alphabet connected to how our shared ancestors counted the phases of the moon and its effect on tides 50,000 years ago? Did the first stirrings of government and bureaucracy ...

The Stone Age was a prehistoric period that lasted more than 3 million years, from the point when human ancestors began using stone tools until the time we invented metalworking. Archaeologists often ...