Around 13,000 years ago, during the last Ice Age, early humans faced the daunting task of hunting massive creatures like mammoths, mastodons, and saber-toothed cats. The common belief was that these prehistoric hunters used intricately crafted stone-tipped spears, known as Clovis points, to ambush and take down these formidable animals. However, new research from archaeologists […]
Stone Age Archaeology
By exploring caves, rock shelters, open-air camps, and later permanent settlements, Stone Age archaeologists gain valuable insights into how hunter-gatherer and early farming communities organized themselves and adapted to various environments and climate changes over thousands of years. The gradual developments from simple Oldowan stone tools to complex multilayered Upper Paleolithic sites reveal the cultural and technological progress of our earliest human ancestors.
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Western European populations became extinct in the Ice Age and were replaced by hunter-gatherers migrating from Eastern Europe
Around 45,000 years ago, the first modern humans arrived in Europe during the last Ice Age, marking the beginning of the Upper Paleolithic period. These early human groups settled across Europe and continued to live there through harsh climatic conditions, including the Last Glacial Maximum around 25,000 years ago, when glaciers covered much of northern […]
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Abric Pizarro archaeological site in Spain reveals “surprising” behavior of Neanderthals
The archaeological site of Abric Pizarro in Lleida, Spain, has revealed surprising information about Neanderthal behavior, challenging our previous understanding of these ancient humans. Located in the foothills of the southern Pyrenees, this unexplored area is shedding light on a little-known period of Neanderthal history and may help solve the mystery of their eventual disappearance. […]
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Archaeologists Reveal How Early Humans Entered the Pacific
An international team of researchers has made a finding that sheds new light on the expansion of modern humans towards the Pacific. Archaeological excavations in the Mololo cave, located in the Raja Ampat islands of Indonesia, have provided evidence of human occupation dating back more than 55,000 years, making it the oldest known site in […]
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Carvings at Göbekli Tepe are the World’s Oldest Calendar, Created to Commemorate the Comet Impact that Gave Rise to Civilization
Carvings on a stone pillar at the 12,000-year-old archaeological site of Göbekli Tepe in Turkey may represent the world’s oldest solar calendar, created as a memorial to a devastating comet impact, according to experts. These intricate carvings, which adorn a site thought to have functioned as an ancient temple complex, suggest a sophisticated understanding of […]
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A Neolithic Shaman Buried with Five Distinct Animals Found in the Upper Tigris in Turkey
A team of archaeologists has discovered a tomb at the Neolithic site of Çemka Höyük, located in the Upper Tigris Basin in Turkey. This tomb dates back to the 10th millennium BC and contains the remains of a woman who may have been a shaman or a figure of spiritual significance in her community. The […]
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Remarkably Long Mound from 5,800 Years Ago Unearthed in the Czech Republic
During recent archaeological rescue excavations along the D35 highway between Plotiště and Sadová in the Czech Republic, a monumental archaeological structure was unearthed at the border of the municipalities of Dlouhé Dvory and Lípa. This impressive structure, identified as a long mound, dates back approximately 5,800 years and is attributed to the Funnel Beaker Culture […]
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New Remains of 850,000 Years Old Homo antecessor at Atapuerca
In a historic moment for paleoanthropology, the sites in the Sierra de Atapuerca have once again become the center of global attention thanks to the new remains of Homo antecessor found in the TD6 unit of the Gran Dolina. These discoveries mark a milestone in archaeological and anthropological research, coinciding with the 30th anniversary of […]
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The Altamura Man, the Best-Preserved Neanderthal Fossil, Is So Ancient That It Was Found Embedded Among Stalactites and Stalagmites
In 1993, in the Lamalunga karst system near the town of Altamura in southern Italy, an extraordinary archaeological discovery was made: a Neanderthal skeleton, nicknamed the Altamura Man, which is estimated to be between 130,000 and 172,000 years old, was found. The discovery was not only significant due to its age but also because of […]
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Mysterious Relief of a Human Face Discovered in Granite in Kazakhstan
A team of archaeologists from the Kh. Margulan Institute of Archaeology has discovered a relief of a human face sculpted into a granite block and an impressive stele in the Zerenda district, located in the Akmola region of Kazakhstan. The discovery was initially reported by Mendibay Kopobayev, the director of the local museum in the […]