Part I published as American School of Prehistoric Research bulletin no. 49, 2007. Contents The Mousterian lithic assemblages from Kebara Cave / Liliane Meignen -- Dietary and health issues of the ...

Why do people wear clothes, and when did they start doing so? To answer this fundamental question, archaeologist Ian Gilligan of the University of Sydney went back to the beginning. “There’s little ...

There is increasing evidence to suggest that symbolic and abstract thought may have deep evolutionary roots and was not ...

Archaeologists have uncovered evidence of a cave dwelling that was constructed around 16,800 years ago by prehistoric humans. The dwelling was found in the La Garma cave complex in the autonomous ...

Archaeologists have unearthed a set of "truly significant" Stone Age artifacts during an excavation being conducted ahead of planned road improvement in northern England, researchers told Newsweek.

The color blue is hard to come by. Unlike red, yellow, and white, which occur readily in mineral form, blue is a rarity. For prehistoric people living in western Eurasia, an area roughly covering ...

Nearly 250 schoolchildren — some from a girls’ Lego construction team — and 35 adult volunteers helped search for the ...

Deep in an open coal mine in southern Greece, researchers have discovered the antiquities-rich country’s oldest archaeological site, which dates to 700,000 years ago and is associated with modern ...

Deep in an open coal mine in southern Greece, researchers have discovered the antiquities-rich country's oldest archaeological site, which dates to 700,000 years ago and is associated with modern ...

Machine derived contents note: Contents -- n -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Preface -- Ofer Bar-Yosef and Bernard Vandermeersch 000 -- acknowledgments -- references -- chapter one -- ...