Researchers have been exploring Iraq’s Western Desert to decode its geomorphological history and search for traces of early ...

In addition, once cumulative culture is firmly in place within a population (see Middle Stone Age/Middle Paleolithic below), technologies will begin to reflect population-level differences as a ...

Ella Egberts (VUB) traveled to Iraq in November and December as part of a pilot project to search for archaeological surface ...

Our human ancestors fundamentally changed their eating behavior in the Neolithic period. This was when they began to cultivate cereals and domesticate wild animals.

But Stone Age families likely had a relatively manageable amount of children. On average, hunter-gatherer women gave birth to ...

While Paleolithic (early Stone Age) artifacts point to the use of wood for simple tools such as spears or throwing sticks, later Mesolithic and Neolithic artifacts reflect far more sophisticated ...

The basis of many Upper Paleolithic tool forms from both the ... For European and American Stone Age peoples, end scrapers served as heavy- duty scraping tools that could have been used on animal ...

in Transitions Before the Transition: Evolution and Stability in the Middle Paleolithic and Middle Stone Age, eds. E. Hovers & S. L. Kuhn (New York, NY: Springer, 2006) 85-108. D'Errico ...

By Alimat Aliyeva Belgian scientists from the Free University of Brussels (VUB) have announced the results of an expedi ...

Recent excavations have shown that iron age peoples also visited ... unearthing more than 3,000 paleolithic objects. The neolithic layer included refined stone hoes, knives, sickles, spears, ...

This is the first discovery of its kind in North China from the Paleolithic period. "Traditionally, we believed stone tool making was simply a matter of subtraction, changing the shape of the ...