View of the three-dimensional map on the cave floor. Credit: Pascal Crapet, Fontainebleau / courtesy of Médard Thiry for labrujulaverde.com French scientists have identified a unique engraving in the ...

Decorations on the bodies of newborns indicate that they were probably important in their community. Several adult graves from the Stone Age (Upper Palaeolithic period) have been found but child ...

Researchers have discovered what may be the world's oldest three-dimensional map, located within a quartzitic sandstone megaclast in the Paris Basin. The research is published in the Oxford Journal of ...

A new article tells how researchers found -- in the site of Hort de la Bequera (Margalef de Montsant, Priorat) -- an artistic piece from 12,500 years ago in which humans and birds try to interact in a ...

Prehistoric humans were emotionally and socially sophisticated in how they handled death, and the archaelogical evidence at ...

A team of archaeologists from the Universitat Jaume I, the University of Barcelona, and the Catalan Institution for Research and Advanced Studies (ICREA) has developed a new methodology that allows ...

The idea that palaeolithic art is based in religious beliefs isn't new. But for years, anthropologists, archaeologists and historians of art understood these artistic manifestations as purely ...

Mainly on the basis of ESR dates from several sites, it was recently suggested that the Lower–Middle Palaeolithic transition was rapid, taking place at 215 ± 30 kyr ago 27. Because these dates were ...

Over 500 stone age tools, which could date back to Lower and Middle Palaeolithic periods, have been found by a couple of young archaeologists during field surveys conducted in Tiruchi, Pudukottai, and ...