For thousands of years, prehistoric hunters across western North America relied on the atlatl, a powerful dart-throwing device, to take down their prey. However, a recent comprehensive study reveals ...

An 8,000-year-old skeleton discovered deep within a flooded cave system on Mexico's Caribbean coast is shedding new light on the prehistoric inhabitants of the Yucatán Peninsula. The remains, found by ...

The human desire to collect, and recycle items, to hold onto things from the past, is not as new as people would like to think, according to researchers from Tel Aviv University. The study, led by PhD ...

Archaeologists have undertaken pioneering scans of the highest prehistoric paintings of animals in Europe. Archaeologists at the University of York have undertaken pioneering scans of the highest ...

Beats finding a seashell.

The evidence shows that the ‘Ubeidiya site is at least one million nine hundred thousand years old. This finding represents a ...

18:48, Tue, Nov 24, 2020 Updated: 21:00, Tue, Nov 24, 2020 New research led by universities in the UK has uncovered evidence linking prehistoric cave paintings in California and a poisonous flower ...

11:46, Sat, Feb 8, 2025 Updated: 11:48, Sat, Feb 8, 2025 A collection of Stone Age relics have unveiled signs of advanced cognitive and symbolic behaviour in prehistoric humans. The new research, ...

Archaeologists have uncovered an Iron Age cemetery around an earlier prehistoric burial mound in Germany. The remains were discovered close to the River Weser in the Minden-Lübbecke district of North ...

Tensions, pluralities, and engendering archaeology : an introduction to women and prehistory / Margaret W. Conkey and Joan M. Gero -- Gender theory and the archaeological record : why is there no ...

One look at the bulging buttocks of the squat female figurine and British Archaeologist James Mellaart recognized a Stone Age fertility symbol; the dig he was starting on a plain in southern Turkey ...