Initial Upper Palaeolithic News Today

Scientists shed light into how primitive people produced advanced stone tools 50 thousand years ago, cutting across six cultural periods in human history.

A new discovery is shedding more light on the overlap between the two species of human, despite the challenges of exploring this distant time

Evidence of modern humans inhabiting China 45,000 years ago has been found at the Shiyu archaeological site, marking it as the oldest Homo sapiens site discovered in China!

<p style="text-align:left">A team of researchers from China, Australia, France, Spain, and Germany has revealed advanced material culture in East Asia by 45,000 years ago.</p>

The issues he aimed to shed more light on answer were - how did humans arrive and settle in Europe, and how did they interact with the Neanderthals?

Researchers described a new method to safely release DNA from ancient tooth and bone artifacts.

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 E-Mail IMAGE: The Niche 1 sector (left) and the Main sector (right) during the excavations of Bacho Kiro Cave, Bulgaria, in 2016. The cement area in the foreground was previously excavated in... view more  Credit: MPI-EVA/ Nikolay Zaheriev An international research team has sequenced the genomes of the oldest securely dated modern humans in Europe who lived around 45,000 years ago in Bacho Kiro Cave, Bulgaria. By comparing their genomes to the genomes of people who lived later in Eur...