Coastal and underwater cave sites in southern Sicily contain important new clues about the path and fate of early human migrants to the island
Ice Age teens from 25,000 years ago (Upper Paleolithic) went through similar puberty stages as modern-day adolescent; a new study in the Journal of Human Evolution
400,000-year-old stone tools designed specifically for butchering fallow deer, following the disappearance of elephants
More plants on the menu of ancient hunter-gatherers: isotopic evidence reveals surprising dietary practices of pre-agricultural human groups at Taforalt, in Morocco
The first dating study of Pirro Nord, Italy, traditionally regarded as the oldest archaeological site in western Europe, indicates that it is probably much younger than anticipated
The reason for the proximity between Paleolithic extensive stone quarries and water sources: Elephant hunting by early humans
Researchers from Tokyo Metropolitan University crafted replica stone age tools and used them for a range of tasks to see how different activities create traces on the edge
Stone tool technology suggest that the commonly held view of a ‘revolution’ at the time of the dispersal of modern humans in Eurasia was a more nuanced and complicated process of cultural evolution
Homo sapiens already reached northwest Europe more than 45,000 years ago and lived alongside Neanderthals, according to three new studies
Our Homo sapiens ancestors were already living in the north of present-day China around 45,000 years ago, 5,000 years earlier than thought
