D uring the Middle Paleolithic—a period spanning about 40,000 to 300,000 years ago, also called the Middle Stone Age—groups such as modern humans, Neanderthals and Denisovans emerged and began ...

During the Middle Paleolithic, when Neanderthals were modern humans' neighbors, new technologies meant something quite different: new kinds of stone tools that were smaller but could be used for ...

Layers within the cave show a high density of Neolithic settlements, and trace life back to Middle Paleolithic and Mesolithic times. The figurine in question (dubbed Unit 5.2) was initially almost ...

Between 130,000 and 80,000 years ago, during a stretch of history known as the mid-Middle Paleolithic, this region in the Near East became a crucial meeting ground for different human groups ...