A set of stone artifacts engraved with geometric patterns suggests evidence of advanced cognitive and symbolic behavior among ...

Archaeologist Discovers a Hoard of Paleolithic Artifacts From Ancient Lake, Most Notable Are 1,500-Yr-Old Hand Axes In 2024, an expert from Vrije Universiteit Brussel traveled to Iraq and uncovered ...

New study shows Middle Paleolithic people intentionally decorated stone tools, offering evidence that abstract thinking began ...

The tiny cuts and grooves that decorate some ancient human artifacts are not just pretty accidents, according to some ...

There is increasing evidence to suggest that symbolic and abstract thought may have deep evolutionary roots and was not ...

A new study demonstrates that certain incised stone artifacts from the Levantine Middle Paleolithic, specifically from Manot, Qafzeh, and Quneitra caves, were deliberately engraved with geometric ...

A recent study has shed new light on the cognitive and cultural complexity of human societies during the Middle Paleolithic ...

Studies of Paleolithic technologies help inform each of these subject areas. Artifact distributions provide a second potential source of paleobiological data. When studied at local, regional ...

A recent study on the geological and stratigraphic context of the L’Enclos site, located in Mainvilliers (in northern France, ...

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 ...