Social networks spanned thousands of square kilometers during the Upper Paleolithic period, study finds

Researchers from several European institutions, led by scientists from the University of Barcelona and the University of ...
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30,000-year-old 'personal toolkit' found in the Czech Republic provides 'very rare' glimpse into the life of a Stone Age hunter-gatherer

Around 30,000 years ago, a hunter-gatherer left behind what may be a "personal toolkit" in what is now the Czech Republic, a new study finds. Researchers uncovered the extraordinary cluster of ...
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Prehistoric Human Populations Shifted East at the End of the Ice Age

Traveling West embodied the United State's 19th century expansionist tendencies. Traveling East might have been an appropriate tendency for early humans living in what is now Europe near the end of ...
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Paleolithic humans used eyed needles for more than tailoring, scientists say. It could point to the birth of fashion

According to this interpretation, eyed needles, one of the symbols of the Paleolithic age, were not simple tailoring tools but also instruments for the social and cultural development of prehistoric ...
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Emergence and diversity of modern human behavior in paleolithic Asia / edited by Yousuke Kaifu, Masami Izuho, Ted Goebel, Hiroyuki Sato, and Akira Ono

"Peopling of the Americas publications." "Arising from a 2011 symposium sponsored by the National Museum of Nature and Science in Tokyo, this manuscript gathers the work of archaeologists from the ...
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Humans were making fire 350,000 years earlier than previously thought, study finds

LONDON (AP) — Scientists in Britain say ancient humans may have learned to make fire far earlier than previously believed, after uncovering evidence that deliberate fire-setting took place in what is ...