View of the three-dimensional map on the cave floor. Credit: Pascal Crapet, Fontainebleau / courtesy of Médard Thiry for labrujulaverde.com French scientists have identified a unique engraving in the ...

Researchers have discovered what may be the world's oldest three-dimensional map, located within a quartzitic sandstone megaclast in the Paris Basin. The research is published in the Oxford Journal of ...

The Bahe River valley of central China is regarded as one of the most important hominin sites from the late early Pleistocene to the middle Pleistocene. Homo erectus fossils were unearthed at the ...

A new article tells how researchers found -- in the site of Hort de la Bequera (Margalef de Montsant, Priorat) -- an artistic piece from 12,500 years ago in which humans and birds try to interact in a ...

The idea that palaeolithic art is based in religious beliefs isn't new. But for years, anthropologists, archaeologists and historians of art understood these artistic manifestations as purely ...

Knowledge of our ancestor's diets is becoming increasingly important in evolutionary medicine, as researchers have argued that we have evolved to specific type of ‘Palaeolithic’ diet, and many modern ...

Over 500 stone age tools, which could date back to Lower and Middle Palaeolithic periods, have been found by a couple of young archaeologists during field surveys conducted in Tiruchi, Pudukottai, and ...