As much as possible, the team sought to use tools and practices on par with what would have been available to the Paleolithic people. It took six days to cut down a Japanese cedar tree with ...

For decades, archaeologists have studied the remains of Pavlovian peoples, who lived in Central Europe between 29,000 and 25,000 years ago. These Paleolithic hunter-gatherers, named after the ...

Archaeologists often break up this lengthy time span into three periods — the Paleolithic (3.3 million to 12,000 years ago), the Mesolithic (12,000 to 10,000 years ago), and the Neolithic ...

Working out what animals that lived in the distant past looked like used to be thought impossible. But since the 1990s, thousands of fossils with feathers and fur have been discovered. In some ...

As early as the Upper Paleolithic, the earliest period of the Paleolithic, the ancestors of modern humans effectively hunted small and large mammals. "According to various studies, the hominins of ...

Homo sapiens weren't the only hominins during the Paleolithic era; they were actually one of the later species to evolve. Homo erectus, for example, were in Africa and Asia between 1.89 million ...

Early mammals were small, strictly nocturnal, and altogether less showy–verging on downright drab, as supported by a study published March 13 in the journal Science.

According to Pettitt, there are more than 30 non-figurative signs in paleolithic art, but study coauthor Bennett Bacon – a furniture conservator and independent researcher who made the initial ...