Archaeologists have uncovered a prehistoric site in South America where hunter-gatherers butchered a now-extinct elephant relative more than 12,000 years ago. A study, published in the open-access ...

Text.: Holocene climate, environmental change, and Neolithic biocultural discontinuity in the Baikal region / Dustin White and Andrew Bush -- Radiocarbon dating of Middle Holocene culture history in ...

Finnish prehistoric rock paintings (5000–1500 BCE) on the cliffs rising directly from the lakes are acoustically special environments. When the lake levels have remained unchanged, these extremely ...

Researchers from the University of Haifa analyze hundreds of waterfowl bones from site and determine the land was marshy and ...

By Will Dunham (Reuters) -A clay figurine about 12,000 years old that was unearthed at the site of a prehistoric village ...

High-tech DNA analysis of skeletons buried 8,000 years ago in France reveals that the last hunter-gatherer groups in Europe likely developed cultural strategies to avoid inbreeding, a new study ...

Tiny clay sculpture unearthed at Nahal Ein Gev in the Galilee is the earliest known figurine depicting human-animal ...

Hunter-gatherers took shelter from the ice age in Southwestern Europe, but were replaced on the Italian peninsula according to two new studies, published in Nature and Nature Ecology & Evolution today ...

Scientists have compiled the largest database of ancient DNA based on the bones and teeth of almost 5,000 humans who lived across Western Europe and parts of Central Asia from 34,000 years ago until ...

Researchers performed acoustic impulse response measurements in front of 37 rock painting site and found that the same vertical rock surfaces that have the painted elks, humans and boats, are also ...