The Tokyo National Museum’s ‘Before the Jomon Era’ marks the 80th anniversary of one of the most significant discoveries in ...

Learn how red markings in a Welsh cave, once dismissed as natural stains, were reanalyzed as Paleolithic cave art, ...

Over a century after a red-lined cave wall was discovered, scientists have determined that it represents the U.K.'s oldest ...

For nearly a century, skeptics dismissed a Paleolithic cave painting as merely rust-red iron oxides, the kind of natural ...

A research group led by the Nagoya University Museum and Graduate School of Environmental Studies in Japan has clarified differences in the physical characteristics of rocks used by early humans ...

First discovered in 1912 by the prominent British geologist William Sollas and the French archaeologist Abbé Henri Breuil, the markings were initially celebrated as the first specimen of prehistoric ...

In a study published in the journal Scientific Reports, researchers from the Senckenberg Center for Human Evolution and Palaeoenvironment (SHEP) at the University of Tübingen show that early humans of ...

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 ...

Archaeologists have discovered what appears to be the oldest known example of three-dimensional East Asian art in a rubbish pile excavated in Lingjing, Henan, China. The ancient Paleolithic bird ...

According to a report in The Guardian, red horizontal bands on the walls of a cave in south Wales have now been identified as ...

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 ...