A 500,000-year-old elephant bone hammer discovered at Boxgrove, England
Researchers have identified at Boxgrove the oldest bone hammer in Western Europe: made 500,000 years ago from a forest elephant bone, it wa…
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From 3 million years ago to the dawn of our era: archaeological discoveries, palaeogenetics, cave art and the great transformations of human societies.
Researchers have identified at Boxgrove the oldest bone hammer in Western Europe: made 500,000 years ago from a forest elephant bone, it wa…
Read →Between 50,000 and 10,000 years ago, dozens of giant species vanished from the planet. Mammoths, cave lions, megatheria: this great collaps…
Read →13,000 years ago, Clovis hunters spread their distinctive projectile points across the entire American continent. Long considered the first…
Read →A 9,000-year-old burial in Peru revealed a young woman interred with a complete hunting kit. This discovery and a meta-analysis of 429 indi…
Read →Triangles, dots, spirals: the 32 recurring abstract signs of Palaeolithic rock art reveal a symbolic system shared by humanity for over 40,…
Read →Some 17,000 years ago, Magdalenian artists painted bison, reindeer, and mammoths in polychrome in a Dordogne fissure. The last cave of its …
Read →Some 25,000 years ago, a Gravettian hand carved the first recognizable human face in mammoth ivory. Just 3.65 cm that change everything.
Read →Some 12,000 years ago, a young man with severe acromegaly survived for years in a Calabrian cave. Someone fed him, helped him. A rare testa…
Read →Deep in an Ariège cave, two bison sculpted in clay 14,000 years ago stand as some of the finest sculptures of the Paleolithic era.
Read →Excavations at Bacho Kiro cave (Bulgaria) have revealed Homo sapiens remains dating to 43,000 to 46,000 years ago, or possibly more. This i…
Read →In Gargas cave (Hautes-Pyrenees, France), 231 hand prints 27,000 years old line the walls. Most have missing fingers. Ritual mutilation, ge…
Read →A study in Current Biology analyses the DNA of 521 woolly mammoths and reveals that human butchery sites contain 70% females, versus 66% ma…
Read →Discovered in 1924 at the Abri des Merveilles in the Dordogne, a translucent scraper knapped from rock crystal challenged as early as 1931 …
Read →A new study in PLOS ONE redates the mammoth ivory boomerang from Oblazowa Cave, Poland, to between 39,000 and 42,000 years ago, making it t…
Read →University of Tubingen archaeologists have presented two 2cm bird figurines carved in mammoth ivory, dated to thé Aurignacian (40,000 years…
Read →University of Tubingen archaeologists have presented two 2cm bird figurines carved in mammoth ivory, dated to thé Aurignacian (40,000 years…
Read →A systematic spatial analysis of decorated sites in the Basque Country and Cantabria shows that Palaeolithic artists deliberately organized…
Read →A Levantine skull dating to approximately 100,000 years ago displays a penetrating lesion on the facial bones interpreted as intentional in…
Read →At Wonderwerk Cave in South Africa, a study published in PLoS One documents burned mammal bones dating between 1.07 and 1.79 million years …
Read →In Liang Metanduno cave on the Indonesian island of Muna, a negative hand stencil with claw-like fingers has been dated to at least 67,800 …
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