Researchers have generally thought that only prehistoric males hunted—but what if evidence against that idea has been lying ...

Text.: Holocene climate, environmental change, and Neolithic biocultural discontinuity in the Baikal region / Dustin White and Andrew Bush -- Radiocarbon dating of Middle Holocene culture history in ...

Imagine Europe tens of thousands of years ago: dense forests, large herds of elephants, bison and aurochs—and small groups of people armed with fire and spears. A new study shows that these people ...

The Neolithic inhabitants of the South Pacific feasted on large, fast-moving marine predators, including multiple species of ...

Finnish prehistoric rock paintings (5000–1500 BCE) on the cliffs rising directly from the lakes are acoustically special environments. When the lake levels have remained unchanged, these extremely ...

Archaeologists have uncovered a prehistoric site in South America where hunter-gatherers butchered a now-extinct elephant relative more than 12,000 years ago. A study, published in the open-access ...

Around 30,000 years ago, a hunter-gatherer left behind what may be a "personal toolkit" in what is now the Czech Republic, a new study finds. Researchers uncovered the extraordinary cluster of ...

An innovative technique used in a study of Neanderthal hearths—places where fires were created—has been described by researchers as a "major" development in archaeology, one that could help shed light ...

The computer modeling revealed that prehistoric humans influenced European landscapes through two primary mechanisms: deliberate burning of trees and shrubs to create more open habitats, and hunting ...

A groundbreaking discovery in a cave south of Paris may redefine early human innovation. In the Ségognole 3 cave, scientists have discovered what may be the earliest three-dimensional map in the world ...

Researchers performed acoustic impulse response measurements in front of 37 rock painting site and found that the same vertical rock surfaces that have the painted elks, humans and boats, are also ...