Beginning with the first accession of Paleolithic collections in 1869, the Smithsonian Institution and its scientific staff have shown great interest in pursuing research, education, and exhibition of ...

While more evidence is needed to link paleo-Americans to Japan, it is possible that they came by boat instead of crossing the ...

Anthropologie (1962-), Vol. 53, No. 1/2, Special Issue: The 19th EAA Annual Meeting in Pilsen: What is Changing and When — Post-LBK Life in Central Europe and The Life of Lithic Tools in the ...

The ability to make art has often been considered a hallmark of our species. Over a century ago, prehistorians even had ...

A new analysis of stone tools offers strong evidence for the theory that ancient people from the Pacific Rim traveled a coastal route from East Asia during the last ice age to become North America's ...

New research along Turkey’s Ayvalık coast reveals a once-submerged land bridge that may have helped early humans cross from Anatolia into Europe. Archaeologists uncovered 138 Paleolithic tools across ...

The color blue is hard to come by. Unlike red, yellow, and white, which occur readily in mineral form, blue is a rarity. For prehistoric people living in western Eurasia, an area roughly covering ...

Outgrowth of a symposium at the 2008 [73rd annual] meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, held in Vancouver. Cf. p. 1. Paperback printing 2012. Contents Analytical approaches to Palaeolithic ...

New study by a Turkish archaeology team has revealed that Ayvalık was once connected to a vast coastal plain — a natural bridge between continents when seas during the Ice Age were considerably ...

Prof. Sahra Talamo in the center, with Prof. Paweł Valde-Nowak is on her left, and Prof. Adam Nadachowski on her right. Author countries: Italy, Canada, Switzerland, Poland, U.K., Germany. Funding: ...

New insights into ancient East Asian hominins have arrived due to several tools detected in the region. These tools were found buried in oxygen-poor clay sediments on the shores of an ancient lake in ...