Then you go to Lascaux. When the Stone Age cave paintings at Altamira and Lascaux were stumbled upon in modern times, archaeologists and anthropologists regarded them as certainly frauds.

This wasn’t a one-time usage situation, either—the for thousands of years, spanning the final Middle Stone Age and the Late ...

Archaeologists at Knysna Eastern Heads Cave 1. Sara Watson, Author provided (no reuse). The site sits 23 metres above sea level on the southern coast of South Africa overlooking the Indian Ocean.

Suspected 35,000-Year-Old Stone Age Ritual Site Found Deep Within Cave ... The team concluded that “the Manot people could be closely related to the first modern humans who later successfully ...

In a cave overlooking the ocean on the southern coast of South Africa, archaeologists discovered thousands of stone tools, created by ancient humans roughly 20,000 years ago. By examining tiny ...

Stone Age people once occupied a cave called Grotte des Pigeons near Taforalt in the mountains of east Morocco. An ancient burial pit in the cave contains seed cones from the plant Ephedra, a ...

Stone Age people made sun stone 'sacrifice' to banish 'darkened sun' after a volcanic eruption, archaeologists say News By Kristina Killgrove published 16 January 2025 ...

Stone Age people buried over a span of 800 years at a mass grave in France mostly belonged to the same male ... a limestone cave in southern France — contained the remains of roughly 75 ...

Stone tools from Knysna Eastern Heads Cave 1 in South Africa provide a continuous record of human occupation from the Middle to Later Stone Age, spanning 48,000 to 15,000 years ago.