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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

“(It’s) one of the oldest sites in Europe that have tools characteristic of the so called Middle Palaeolithic tool industry, suggesting that Greece may have played a significant role in ...

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 ...

Tortoise remains are common finds at such sites from the Middle Paleolithic period onward, including at the Manot Cave. The Manot Cave authors found similar evidence of illumination in the deep ...