The research looked at 18 "Venus" models discovered in Ukraine and thought to be 18,000 years old.

As archaeologists study the work of ancient artists, they notice that the images aren’t simply static; some are painted into the contours of the rock, and others are set in motion in torchlight

A perforated pendant from Kents Cavern reveals the surprisingly long reach of Magdalenian social worlds

Residue analysis in the field of Palaeolithic studies represents a powerful source of information, as well as a challenging operation of deduction, based on the interpretation of what remains of organ...

Humans have been collecting fossils since Neanderthal times.

A 25,000-year record of lithic raw material use in the southern Pyrenees reveals that where people got their stone changed — and that change tracks something larger than geography.

An international research team coordinated by Ca' Foscari University of Venice has identified the presence of indigotin—a blue dye compound—on stone pebbles dating back to the Upper Paleolithic. This molecule, derived from the leaves of Isatis tinctoria L., a biennial plant in the Brassicaceae family native to the Caucasus and commonly known as woad, was found on ground stone tools.

Direct dates for human remains found in association with ...