A unique archaeological find has recently expanded our knowledge of Neanderthals' capacity for symbolic thought. The object ...

Humans, ever aware of and influenced by our surroundings, have a fundamental need to define and personalize our spaces. The physical environment in which our life unfolds, whether at home, ...

A unique archaeological find has recently expanded our knowledge of Neanderthals' capacity for symbolic thought. The object ...

In a monumental archaeological breakthrough, a series of previously undiscovered cave paintings has emerged from the shadows ... technique previously thought to have emerged only in the Upper ...

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A prehistoric map of the night sky has been discovered on the walls of the famous painted caves at Lascaux in central France. It is a map of the prehistoric cosmos According to Dr Rappenglueck, these ...

As a result of the extremely stable interior climate over millennia, as well as the absence of natural damaging processes, the drawings and paintings have ... evidence in the cave illustrates like no ...

Mummies, too. Historians think it was a sign of elite status, royal or religious, in the Upper Paleolithic era, and from there back the historical trail vanishes; no one’s sure exactly where or ...

There are fine examples of cave art in France and Spain but none has been found in the UK - until now. The British art is less impressive than the paintings found in continental caves. It is also ...

The literal meaning of those paintings had been dismissed as an unsolvable mystery ... Two horizontal stone ledges, one above the other, divided the shallow cave into upper, middle, and lower sections ...

There's evidence of it in the wall paintings, cave paintings that you see from 10s of 1000s of years ago, from all over the world. Our brains are processing information in order to make choices that ...

Researchers dated these new-found Scottish tools back to between 11,500 and 11,000 years ago, during what is called the Late Upper Paleolithic. The “Upper” part of the Paleolithic Period is a ...