Why study Paleolithic technology? What can old stone tools, ancient fire pits, and painted cave walls tell us about our evolutionary past? Humans occupy a rarified position in the modern world. We ...

Archaeologists often break up this lengthy time span into three periods — the Paleolithic (3.3 million to 12,000 years ago), the Mesolithic (12,000 to 10,000 years ago), and the Neolithic ...

So they turned to the dugout canoe. Granted, to date, there is no physical archaeological evidence that dugouts existed in the Paleolithic Ryukyus, but excavators have unearthed edge-ground stone ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. David Bressan is a geologist who covers curiosities about Earth. During the upper Paleolithic between 35,000 and 12,000 years ...

According to Pettitt, there are more than 30 non-figurative signs in paleolithic art, but study coauthor Bennett Bacon – a furniture conservator and independent researcher who made the initial ...

Rebel Paleolithic artist breaks the rules, draws a campsite 13,800 years ago. By Deborah Netburn. Staff Writer Follow. Dec. 4, 2015 8:06 PM PT . Share via Close extra sharing options. Email; ...

Paleolithic Technology "Since these are extremely, extremely old sites, from before the end of the last Ice Age, we had to be very careful with our excavation," Watson said.

Archaeologists excavating a paleolithic cave site in Galilee, Israel, have found evidence that a deep-cave compound at the site may have been used for ritualistic gatherings, according to a new ...