The finding adds evidence to the debate as to whether Neanderthals were capable of creating art that was symbolic. In this ...

The Australian aborigines wear practically no clothes, grow no crops, live by hunting and berry picking. Their major art consists of rock pictures of spirits called Wondjina. First painted centuries ...

Excavation at Dwaalhoek has uncovered ancient treasures that have revealed ancient San and farmer interactions.

'Oddly shaped head' left in Italian cave 12,500 years ago is Europe's oldest known case of cranial modification, study finds 50 amazing facial reconstructions, from Stone Age shamans to King Tut ...

Jacquetta Hawkes is an archeologist in love with the earth and stone of her native Britain. Out of her studies and her warm prejudice has come an extraordinary book called A Land, tracing the ...

At the Jama Basin, archaeologists uncovered ochre-stained tools and pigment-processing sites that predate known Asian ...