New technologies today often involve electronic devices that are smaller and smarter than before. During the Middle Paleolithic, when Neanderthals were modern humans’ neighbors, new technologies meant ...

"Introductory volume to the series: Tübingen publications in prehistory." Includes 27 of the papers delivered at the second meeting of the IUPPS Commission 27 on Middle Paleolithic and Middle Stone ...

Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory, Vol. 28, No. 1, Special Issue: Techno-Behaviours (March 2021), pp. 1-10 (10 pages) In this brief introduction, we present and contextualise ‘theoretical ...

Two symposia "The Middle Paleolithic: climbing uphill slowly or going nowhere fast?" and "Stability and change in the Middle Paleolithic and Middle Stone Age" were held in Denver during the 2002 ...

DNA evidence from Starosele suggests that Neanderthals traveled from Europe to Asia in warmer turns of Paleolithic period.

A new study illuminates the cultural evolution that took place approximately 50,000 to 40,000 years ago, coinciding with the dispersals of Homo sapiens across Eurasia. The insights gleaned from their ...

The findings from the Ghar-e Boof site reveal that the diet of the local hominins included carnivores and tortoises, among others. Credit: N. Conard The findings from the Ghar-e Boof site reveal that ...

Until now, at least 14 different species have been assigned to the genus Homo since it emerged in Ethiopia some 2.8 million years ago, revealing branching evolutionary stories of survival, intermixing ...

The increase in the productivity of stone tool cutting-edge (shown in white lines) did not occur before or at the beginning of Homo sapiens’ wide dispersals in Eurasia but subsequently occurred after ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Ben Marwick, University of Washington (THE CONVERSATION) New technologies today often ...