15,800-year-old engraved plaquettes from the Magdalenian site of Gönnersdorf, located in modern-day Germany, depict fishing techniques, including the use of nets, not previously known in the Upper Paleolithic
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
Homo sapiens already reached northwest Europe more than 45,000 years ago and lived alongside Neanderthals, according to three new studies
Paleolithic humans may have understood the properties of rocks for making stone tools, as they preferred middle-grained flint over fine-grained flint
Paleolithic humans occupied upland regions of inland Spain in even the coldest periods of the last Ice Age: the evidence comes from Charco Verde II
The need to hunt small prey compelled prehistoric humans to produce appropriate hunting weapons and improve their cognitive abilities
Genomics and archaeology rewrite the Neolithic Revolution in the Maghreb, according to a new study published in Nature
Bow-and-arrow, technology of the first modern humans in Europe 54,000 years ago at Mandrin, France; the study is on Science Advances
Homo sapiens “Linya” lived in the northeast of the Iberian Peninsula 14,000 years ago, at cave known as Cova Gran (Avellanes-Santa Linya, Noguera)