Late Upper Paleolithic News Today

Animals carved into stone were created to be placed around fires at night, allowing the flickering light to play across them, researchers suggest.

Animal portraits may have been placed close to flickering fires to appear animated.

More than a century after first discovering cave art dating back to the Stone Age in Italy’s Romanelli Cave (they were found in 1905), a team of archaeologists, geologists, and paleontologists have recently found more drawings. The newly discovered Paleolithic art includes geometric designs, a bovid (hoofed mammal), and a bird. The cave, which is... Read more »

Researchers have found dozens of new rock art panels at Romanelli Cave in Italy which could evidence a common Paleolithic Eurasian rock art tradition.

Archeologists have discovered more ancient cave art in Italy, more than 100 years after the first images were discovered there.

Abstract We present genome-wide data from 40 individuals dating to c.16,900 to 550 years ago in northeast Asia. We describe hitherto unknown gene flow and admixture events in the region, revealing a complex population history. While populations east of Lake Baikal remained relatively stable from the Mesolithic to the Bronze Age, those from Yakutia and west of Lake Baikal witnessed major population transformations, from the Late Upper Paleolithic to the Neolithic, and during the Bronze Age, resp...