A new study demonstrates that certain incised stone artifacts from the Levantine Middle Paleolithic, specifically from Manot, ...

A new study has shown that as early as the Stone Age, people in Africa traveled long distances to procure colorful stone, the ...

TEHRAN - In a landmark announcement during the 47th session of the UNESCO World Heritage Committee on Friday, in Paris, the ...

Another reason Middle Paleolithic evidence appears rare in East Asia is because what now seem to be less typical variations of the Quina tool kit previously found in China had been overlooked, ...

Middle Stone Age (MSA): A prehistoric Period. An assortment of prehistoric technologies common to some area of Africa from ~300,000 to ~30,000 years ago, characterized by the production and use of ...

The Theopetra Cave, located in the Thessaly region of Greece, is home to what many experts consider the oldest construction ...

During the Middle Paleolithic, there were multiple human species that could make tools like this. It could have been modern humans like us. But it could also have been Neanderthals.

After the Upper Paleolithic comes the Middle Stone Age, or Mesolithic period. Scientists disagree if this period really deserves its own name; another term for it is the Epipaleolithic period ...

Stiner, M. C. "Middle Paleolithic subsistence ecology in the Mediterranean region," in Transitions Before the Transition: Evolution and Stability in the Middle Paleolithic and Middle Stone Age ...

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