About 8,500 years ago, a 5'6" man with size 11 feet walked along the Severn Estuary at 2.6 miles per hour carrying a heavy load on his right shoulder. Archaeologists deduced all this from a series of ...

Chipping away to create indentations for basins, these pioneering cartographers then cut grooves into the cave floor to ...

Archaeologists Discover the World’s Oldest 3D Map Inside a Cave, Hosts Three Different Styles of Ancient Art A cave shelter ...

The Quina scrapers were first found at a cave site in France after which they ... Archaeologists have known that early humans started using stone tools called scrapers to process hides and scrape ...

Other tableaux are hard to interpret without knowing what cultural beliefs and aspirations these Stone Age artists were representing. Because the paintings are often found deep inside caves in ...

The surprise discovery that ancient human DNA can survive in sediments and soil is revolutionising the study of Paleolithic minds, behaviours and lifestyles ...

In the cramped confines of a small cavern to the south of Paris, scientists have 'read between the lines' on the floor and discovered what could be the oldest surviving three-dimensional map of a ...

This work of art was found in a cave at Cresswell Crags, Derbyshire. It was made around 12,000 years ago. The Stone Age artist used a sharp stone to scratch the outline of a horse onto a piece of ...

Other artistic relics of Stone Age peoples, especially in the Old World, include carved figurines, cave paintings, and beaded clothing. France's Solutrean culture of 23,000 to 18,000 years ago is ...