New research shows Stone Age humans created structured signs and symbol systems 40,000 years ago, long before formal writing ...

Stone Age artifacts discovered in a German cave could push back the origins of writing by 30,000 years. willbrasil - stock.adobe.com The origins of writing aren’t set in stone. The ancient cave ...

The Loveland Stone Age Fair, approaching a century old, is returning to town, promising a free, fun and educational Saturday for children and adults alike. The fair, now in its 91st year, will be ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Adorant figurine from Geißenklösterle Cave, approximately 38,000 years old, consists of a small ivory plate bearing an ...

The hills of South Moravia have yielded thousands of Stone Age artifacts over decades of excavation, most of them anonymous fragments of a distant past. But a cluster of29 stones found in 2021 at the ...

Ancient wooden tools found at a site in Gantangqing in southwestern China are approximately 300,000 years old, new dating has shown. Discovered during excavations carried out in 2014–15 and 2018–19, ...

Over 40,000 years ago, our early ancestors were already carving signs into tools and sculptures. According to a new analysis by linguist Christian Bentz at Saarland University and archaeologist Ewa ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. The cluster of Paleolithic ...

Professor, Environmental Futures Research Centre, School of Science, University of Wollongong The excavation, curation, and research of the Gantangqing site were supported by National Cultural ...

Our ancestors in Kenya's Southern Rift Valley made some pretty innovative tools. And they made them far earlier than previously thought. The oldest innovations were axes designed to be held in the ...