Prehistoric Pigments Found in Portugal Suggest Rock Engravings May Once Have Been Painted
The horses and wild cattle engraved on the rocks of Portugal’s Côa Valley have survived for thousands of years as outlines carved into stone. But…
Upper Paleolithic
Ice Age Artists Turned the Natural Patterns of Mammoth Tusks into Art 18,000 Years Ago
Around 18,000 years ago, artists living in what is now northern Ukraine carved small human figures from mammoth ivory. A new study suggests that the…
Ancient DNA Reveals Ice Age Humans Disproportionately Targeted Female Woolly Mammoths
Ancient DNA recovered from more than 500 woolly mammoths has revealed an unexpected pattern in the relationship between Ice Age people and one of the…
Europe’s First Toolmakers Were Innovators, Not Imitators: 42,000-Year-Old Evidence Reshapes Human Prehistory
A groundbreaking study has revealed that Europe’s earliest modern humans developed their own stone tool technologies 42,000 years ago — independently of the Near East.…