These discoveries provide the first material evidence verifying the existence of a foraging economy during the Middle Paleolithic period, making it the only site with abundant plant remains identified ...

Following a recent study, Dr. Przemysław Bobrowski and his colleagues published new radiocarbon dates on Holocene (11,700 ...

An ancient amber bear figurine, unearthed by miners in northern Poland, is the subject of renewed attention following a study ...

A surprising archaeological discovery in southwest China is shaking up what scientists thought they knew about ancient humans ...

Researchers have demonstrated that intensified environmental variability (EV) can promote the evolution of cooperation through simulation based on evolutionary game theory. This result offers a new ...

An archaeological site in Germany suggests communal hunting and complex thinking emerged earlier in human evolution than once thought.

A 7,500-year-old antler unearthed in Sweden had characteristic breakage patterns that suggest it was the handle for a battle ...

A unique carved amber bear was found when workers were delving into the peat in 1887. It is believed that this was worn as a protective charm during the Stone Age, as bears were considered the most ...

Only two men on the British side said that the campaign was a mistake: Aubrey Herbert, an MP who knew the Middle East and its languages, and Colonel Charles Doughty-Wylie, who had performed a ...

Middle age doesn’t arrive with a warning—it just kind of shows up, uninvited, somewhere between finding gray hairs in strange places and realizing your back has “moods.” One minute you ...

In the middle of the figurine's torso ... researchers concluded that the objects are more likely to be Upper Paleolithic in date, a period from 50,000 to 12,000 years ago. The amber bears may ...