Researchers have discovered signs of a Paleolithic writing precursor in ancient tools and sculptures dating back 40,000 years ...
Archaeologists find that Scandinavians wore feather and fur garments in 5,000 BC, using birds and animal skins in ceremonial burials.
Like butterflies are fluttering about inside you, desperately trying to get out of their cocoon? It’s kind of weird when you think about it. Why is an emotion manifesting itself so physically — and so ...
The ancient cave peoples weren’t as illiterate as portrayed in popular media. Archaeologists have discovered Paleolithic ...
In just two months, archaeology shattered the timeline again. 23,000-year-old footprints in North America push human presence back 10,000 years beyond accepted models. In Turkey, a site even older ...
Strange symbols carved onto a Stone Age mammoth ivory plate found at a cave in southwest Germany could be the earliest known ...
Mysterious signs engraved on objects reveal that a form of proto-writing may have been used in Europe 40,000 years ago, tens of thousands of years before the emergence of a full writing system ...
Over 40,000 years ago, our early ancestors were already carving signs into tools and sculptures. According to a new analysis ...
Amazingly, this highly conventional system of signs appears to have been used for a period of almost 10,000 years before vanishing, only to be re-developed by the Sumerians many millennia later and ...
An archaeological study reveals how ancient hunter-gatherer groups lived—and survived—more than a thousand years ago in the ...