A new study demonstrates that certain incised stone artifacts from the Levantine Middle Paleolithic, specifically from Manot, ...

This evidence poses the question of why current human populations are predominantly descended from the latest “out of Africa” ...

Neanderthals in two nearby caves used different techniques when butchering animal carcasses in what is now Israel, according ...

Middle Stone Age (MSA): A prehistoric Period. An assortment of prehistoric technologies common to some area of Africa from ~300,000 to ~30,000 years ago, characterized by the production and use of ...

TEHRAN—Head of South Khorasan Cultural Heritage Department Ahmad Barabadi gave news of start of conducting archaeological ...

A new study from SapienCE reveals that early modern humans at Blombos Cave in South Africa used ochre as a specialized tool for stone toolmaking during the Middle Stone Age, demonstrating advanced ...

Stiner, M. C. "Middle Paleolithic subsistence ecology in the Mediterranean region," in Transitions Before the Transition: Evolution and Stability in the Middle Paleolithic and Middle Stone Age ...

The Theopetra Cave, located in the Thessaly region of Greece, is home to what many experts consider the oldest construction ever made by humans: a stone wall dating back roughly 23,000 years —about 16 ...

A new study has shown that as early as the Stone Age, people in Africa traveled long distances to procure colorful stone, the ...

During the Middle Paleolithic, there were multiple human species that could make tools like this. It could have been modern humans like us. But it could also have been Neanderthals.

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