Archaeologists often break up this lengthy time span into three periods — the Paleolithic (3.3 million to 12,000 years ago), ...

Archaeologists previously assumed that East Asia did not see considerable tool development during the Middle Paleolithic, but ...

An ancient amber bear figurine, unearthed by miners in northern Poland, is the subject of renewed attention following a study ...

Thousands of stone tools ... reveal that Ice Age humans had developed sophisticated fabrication techniques about 20,000 years ago, according to a report in the Journal of Paleolithic Archaeology.

Archaeologists discover 20,000-year-old stone tools in South ... published in the Journal of Paleolithic Archaeology. She added, "People living around the last ice age were very similar to people ...

An ancient hunter likely wore it as a protective charm, since the bear was the most powerful and dangerous animal that lived in the area during the Stone Age ... Paleolithic in date, a period ...

new kinds of stone tools that were smaller but could be used for many tasks and lasted for a long time. Archaeologists like me are interested in the Middle Paleolithic – a period spanning ...

The Stone Age was a prehistoric period that lasted ... although there is regional variation in dates. While the Paleolithic period involved a nomadic lifestyle and the invention of stone tools ...