JERUSALEM — Long before cave paintings and figurines appeared, our ancestors were already expressing themselves on stone tools. Recent research provides compelling evidence that Middle Paleolithic ...

This tiny bird sculpture was created 40,000 years ago by early humans in Europe who carved the key animals in their lives.

After reading about the goddess figurine, dive into the story of the Venus of Willendorf, the 30,000-year-old statue of a Paleolithic woman. Then, read about the Venus De Milo, the world’s most ...

The famed ceramic treasure, crafted around 32,000 years ago during the Paleolithic period, will be seen 'out of the box' for ...

The "Venus of Hohle Fels" is a 40,000-year-old figurine and is so small it could be hidden in your fist. H. Jensen / University of Tübingen The oldest sculpture of a human being is so small it ...

Why study Paleolithic technology? What can old stone tools, ancient fire pits, and painted cave walls tell us about our evolutionary past? Humans occupy a rarified position in the modern world.

During the Middle Paleolithic, when Neanderthals were modern humans' neighbors, new technologies meant something quite different: new kinds of stone tools that were smaller but could be used for ...

"There is no reason for the Natural History Museum Vienna to cover the 'Venus of Willendorf' (a 29,500-year-old figurine, a naked representation of a woman of the Paleolithic Age) and hide her ...

Modern Japanese appear to be genetically descended from the Paleolithic Minatogawa people, according to DNA analysis of human remains in Okinawa Prefecture dating from 20,000 years ago. According ...

What it tells us about the past: Archaeologists excavating Hohle Fels cave in southwestern Germany over two decades ago discovered three tiny figurines ... during the Upper Paleolithic period ...