The burial of the so-called Red Lady, dating back to the Upper Palaeolithic, was discovered in El Mirón cave (Cantabria) in 2010. Unlike most Palaeolithic tombs this one is intact and has not been ...

A new article tells how researchers found -- in the site of Hort de la Bequera (Margalef de Montsant, Priorat) -- an artistic piece from 12,500 years ago in which humans and birds try to interact in a ...

Archaeologists uncover over 500 Stone Age tools in Tamil Nadu, highlighting significant Lower and Middle Palaeolithic sites.

Those who follow the Palaeolithic diet hold the good old days in unusually high esteem. Their fondness for a slab of meat over a piece of toast, bone broth over milk, and nuts over a bag of crisps is ...

This statement isn't new, but for years anthropologists, archaeologists and historians of art understood these artistic manifestations as purely aesthetic and decorative motives. Eduardo Palacio-Pérez ...

A method is offered by which maps of Palaeolithic geography can be drawn. The central objective is to look at palaeoecology but the difficulties -- largely of imprecise numerical data -- of this ...

Modern humans may have deliberately crossed the sea to migrate to the Ryukyu Islands of southwestern Japan, even though the islands would not have been visible on the horizon when they set out, ...

The fascination our species has with itself would be troubling if it weren't the inspiration for really original research that has the capacity to raise questions about what makes us human. For the ...

The archaeology of the Lower Palaeolithic: background and overview / Ravi Korisettar, Michael D. Petraglia -- Techniques for the chronometry of the Palaeolithic: evidence for global colonization / ...

A new, nondestructive method of extracting DNA has been used for the first time to identify the owner of a Palaeolithic pendant found in a south Siberian cave. Researchers in a laboratory in Leipzig, ...

The site of Riparo Dalmeri yielded numerous flint, bone, and shell artifacts, as well as faunal and botanical remains, which are evidence of the Late Upper Palaeolithic (or Late Epigravettian culture, ...