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 ...
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 ...
The Ségognole 3 cave is part of a larger complex of caves in France, known for its prehistoric engravings. Over 2,000 Stone Age engravings have been found in these caves. In 2020, researchers ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...