Archaeologists found three new drawings from tens of thousands of years ago in a Spanish cave. They used a visual technique called stereoscopic photography to see the cave art like never before. The ...

Archaeologists excavating a paleolithic cave site in Galilee, Israel, have found evidence that a deep-cave compound at the site may have been used for ritualistic gatherings, according to a new paper ...

Firelight transformed how early humans utilized their rocky dwellings. Set of photographs of stone lamp experiment. (Medina-Alcaide et al, 2021, PLOS ONE) (CN) — Long before the Dark Ages, a longer, ...

The oldest known depictions of fishing were discovered on a cave wall in Germany and may be the key to understanding early fishing techniques from the Stone Age. While scientists have long known that ...

Earlier this week, we reported on a Swedish archaeologist who spent the last three years sailing the fjords in a replica boat similar to those the Vikings may have used. Not to be outdone, Japanese ...

A pilot project to scan the surface material of an Iraqi desert revealed 850 different artifacts from the Old and Middle Paleolithic eras. Included in the finds were ancient stone hand axes that date ...