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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

When the two co-existed in Europe, there was a "replacement phenomenon" between the Middle Paleolithic and the Upper Paleolithic periods, French paleoanthropologist Jean-Jacques Hublin ...

They believe Neanderthals first entered the cave during the Middle Paleolithic, or the middle part of the Stone Age, drawing on the walls and maintaining their tools inside. After that ...

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 ...

The find is particularly noteworthy because it could confirm the presence of early humans living in this area of Spain during the early Middle Paleolithic, a period about which experts still know ...