The Rub' al-Khali desert was thought to be an endless sea of sand, but one 1998 discovery has shed light on a 5,000-year-old ...

The Theopetra Cave in Thessaly, Greece, houses what is widely considered the oldest known human-made structure: a stone wall constructed approximately 23,000 years ago, predating the Great Pyramid of ...

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

Neanderthals might have lived in today’s southwestern China during the Middle Stone Age, newly discovered tools similar to those previously found only in Europe and the Middle East suggest.

Ben Marwick During 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 ...

The first definitive evidence of Middle Paleolithic Quina technology in East Asia has been uncovered in the Longtan site in Heqing county, ­Yunnan Province, southeastern ­Qinghai-Xizang (Tibet ...

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 ...

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 ...

Archaeology is increasingly allowing us to glimpse into one of those epochs, from 50,000 to 35,000 years ago—the period of transition between the Middle and the Upper Paleolithic eras when modern ...