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A new study dated the mammoth ivory pendant found in Poland’s Stajnia Cave. It’s from 40,000 BC, which makes it the oldest decorative art ever found in Eurasia.

It doesnt look like much. A little shorter than your thumb, perhaps, yellowed and scarred with age, and cracked clean through.

Buried for millennia in the rear of a rock-shelter in the Lapedo Valley 85 miles north of Lisbon, Portugal, archaeologists uncovered the bones of a four-year-old child, comprising the first complete Palaeolithic skeleton ever dug in Iberia.

David Graeber and David Wengrow’s "The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity" looks for the origins of authoritarianism and freedom.

In the ancient Near East, archery became the predominant means of launching sharp projectiles, replacing spear-throwing.

From The Dawn of Everything, which will be published this month by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. In the mid-twentieth century, a British anthropologist named A. M. Hocart proposed that monarchs and insti

Farm. Food. Life.

Researchers say the Japanese wolf and dog share a common ancestor, an extinct species of gray wolves. Asian dog breeds like the Shina Ibu share as much as 5 percent DNA with the Japanese wolf.

In 1908, a small asteroid exploded in the atmosphere over the Tunguska River in Russia, devastating a 1200-square-mile area. In 1978, Slovak astronomer Ľubor Kresák proposed that the asteroid was a fragment of Comet Encke, a periodic comet that orbits the Sun every 3.3 years and is part of the group responsible for the annual... 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.