New discoveries from the Pleistocene-age Gantangqing site in southwestern China reveal a diverse collection of wooden tools dated from ~361,000 to 250,000 years ago
Early modern humans at Blombos Cave in South Africa used ochre as a specialized tool for stone toolmaking during the Middle Stone Age
When ideas travel further than people: how the Neolithic way of life spread from the Fertile Crescent; a new study published in the journal Science
Early farmers in the Andes were doing just fine, challenging popular theory; diet data shows consistent food resources during the transition from foraging to farming
“Boomerang” made from mammoth tusk is likely one of the oldest known in Europe at around 40,000 years old, per analysis of this artifact from Obłazowa Cave, a Polish Upper Paleolithic cave
Ancient dugout canoe replica tests Paleolithic migration theory, and long-standing questions about migration of early modern humans in East Asia
Newgrange: a new study, published in the journal Antiquity, casts doubt on ‘incestuous royalty’ in Neolithic Ireland
Cooking for the craft: new study reveals how prehistoric people extracted animal teeth to produce ornaments
Dargan Shelter: Australia’s oldest occupied Ice Age cave found at high elevation in Blue Mountains; the study is published in Nature Human Behaviour
Earliest evidence of humans in the Americas at New Mexico’s White Sands confirmed in new study published in Science Advances
