Most date from 20,000 years ago or less, in what's called the Upper Paleolithic era. Rocks were ground up to make pigments -- black and ochre were the main ones -- which were then sometimes ...

(Image Credit: Isabell Schmidt ... differences between periods were pretty drastic. During the warmer period of the Final Paleolithic, humans continued to spread into northern and north-eastern ...

In addition, once cumulative culture is firmly in place within a population (see Middle Stone Age/Middle Paleolithic below), technologies will begin to reflect population-level differences as a ...

Archaeologists previously assumed that East Asia did not see considerable tool development during the Middle Paleolithic, but ...

Seventeen decorated caves of the Paleolithic age were inscribed as an extension to the Altamira Cave, inscribed in 1985. The property will now appear on the List as Cave of Altamira and Paleolithic ...

Archaeologists like me are interested in the Middle Paleolithic — a period spanning 250,000 to 30,000 years ago — because it includes the first appearance of our species, our arrival into many ...