Paleolithic

This period is not to be identified with "Old Stone Age", a translation of Paleolithic, or with Paleolithic, or with the "Earlier Stone Age" that originally meant what became the Paleolithic and Mesolithic.

Symbol-like images are more common in Paleolithic cave paintings than are depictions of animals or humans, and unique symbolic patterns might have been trademarks that represent different Upper Paleolithic ethnic groups.

Estimated macronutrient and fatty acid intakes from an East African Paleolithic diet.

Paleo is often dubbed the and tries to re-create what humans ate during the Paleolithic era, although there's as to what exactly that entails.

April Nowell, a Paleolithic archaeologist from the University of Victoria, notes that this research offers a long-term perspective on puberty.

The oldest representation of a human we have – the 40,000-year-old “Venus” of Hohle Fels – is an exaggeratedly fertile woman, the first in a series of Paleolithic statues emphasising breasts, broad hips and the vulva.

This research aims to investigate the chronology, and site formation processes, as well as further paleoanthropological and paleolithic evidence from the cave complex.

Analysis of the pup's genome revealed the Paleolithic wolf was closely related to the ancient wolves of Russia, Siberia and Alaska, the ancestors of modern wolves.

A murder mystery case spanning back 33,000 years has deepened as experts studying a Paleolithic skull found he likely suffered a violent death.

Bone points and pierced teeth, sampled for radiocarbon dating from the early Upper Paleolithic layers of the Denisova Cave in Siberia, Russia, are shown in this photo provided Wednesday.

Previously, scientists thought Paleolithic people lived a hand-to-mouth existence but this research shows they were sophisticated enough to preserve meat using bones like we use modern-day cans.

The research provides direct evidence that early Paleolithic people saved animal bones for up to nine weeks before feasting on them inside Qesem Cave.

The team notes that this is the earliest sign of such behavior, and show how human communities in the Paleolithic could adapt to their environments.

The findings show that even in the Mid Upper Paleolithic, which were very wild times to be alive, you didn’t have to be a healthy, adult male to get an extravagant burial.

About 700,000 years ago, a new Lower Paleolithic tool, the hand ax, appeared.

After the end of the ice age, various Paleolithic groups inhabited the area.

A large number of Middle Paleolithic flint tools were found on the surface and in side gullies that drain into the river.

A painting referred to as "The Crossed Bison", found in the chamber called the Nave, is often submitted as an example of the skill of the Paleolithic cave painters.

Archeologists believe that cave paintings of half-human, half-animal beings may be evidence for early shamanic practices during the Paleolithic.

A somewhat more sophisticated Lower Paleolithic tradition, known as the Chopper chopping-tool industry, is widely distributed in the Eastern Hemisphere.