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 ...

Researchers have found that a spear tip carved from bone, unearthed from Russia in 2003, is as old as 80,000 years.

Go back 200,000 to 400,000 years, to when our Neanderthal ancestors were kicking about, and the latest in manufacturing ...

A famous cache of wooden spear shafts and other hunting tools was once ascribed to a group of early humans that were not known for social organization.

But the earliest evidence so far points to the Middle Paleolithic (around 300,000 to 30,000 years ago). "By at least 120,000 years ago we have what we believe are deliberately buried human bodies ...