Researchers working with Indigenous experts have uncovered fascinating information about a set of ancient rock engravings in southwestern Africa. The rock art was created by hunter-gatherers in what ...

Buried during the Stone Age, this woman once roamed the forests of northern Sweden. Now archaeologists have reconstructed her ...

At 21 meters of depth, in the turbid waters of the Baltic Sea, a secret from the Stone Age was hidden: the Blinkerwall, an ...

Expert trackers have been able to identify the species depicted in around 400 animal footprints carved on rocks in Namibia during the Stone Age. In most cases, they were also able to identify the ...

Prehistoric hunter-gatherers were likely skilled seafarers who could make long and challenging journeys. Stone tools, animal bones and other artifacts unearthed in Malta indicate that humans first ...

Neanderthals were meat eaters, but new analyses show that their diets included other morsels. Neanderthals, our extinct ...

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Unlike many of their mostly meat-eating peers, a group of late Stone Age hunter-gatherers living in what is now northeastern Morocco had a largely plant-based diet. But despite dining for millennia on ...

"Published in cooperation with ArchaeNova e.V., Heidelberg, Germany. Translation: Mirko Wittwar."--Title page verso. Originally published by C.H. Beck, München in ...

In the fall of 2021, Jacob Geersen, a marine geologist now at the Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research, was teaching a one-week field course at the University of Kiel. The class was conducted ...