Prehistoric people who lived around 15,000 years ago likely used firelight to animate their artwork and enhance their storytelling, according to a study published last week. Researchers from the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Archaeologists have long studied rock art to determine the underground movements of early humans. They know humans were there, but ...

A team of archaeologists, paleontologists, and historians from several institutions in Spain, Germany, and Poland, has found evidence of Magdalenian people from approximately 18,000 years ago, living ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Cannibalism was a routine funerary practice in Europe about 15,000 years ago, with people eating their dead not out of necessity ...

A piece of prehistoric jewellery, discovered in a West Country cave, is helping to shed new light on Stone Age Europe's most spectacular culture. Known as the Magdalenian, that 21,000 to 13,000 year ...

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Researchers in Poland have found more evidence of violent cannibalism in the wake of the coldest period of the last Ice Age. Reading time 2 minutes In the 19th century, archaeologists in Poland ...

Stones that were incised with artistic designs around 15,000 years ago have patterns of heat damage which suggests they were carved close to the flickering light of a fire, a new study has found. Our ...

Cannibalism was a routine funerary practice in Europe about 15,000 years ago, with people eating their dead not out of necessity but rather as part of their culture, according to a new study. While ...