The entrance to an Ice Age cave that nobody has entered for 16,000 years has been discovered in southern Germany. During excavations in the town of Engen, in the district of Konstanz, a team led ...

Scientists say they have begun to decipher the symbols on Ice Age cave art — and it all started with a hunch by an enthusiastic layperson. Ben Bacon, a London furniture conservator and amateur ...

As far back as roughly 25,000 years ago, Ice Age hunter-gatherers may have jotted down markings to communicate information about the behavior of their prey, a new study finds. These markings ...

Criterion (iii): Caves and Ice Age Art in the Swabian Jura provides an exceptional testimony to the culture of the first modern humans to settle in Europe. Exceptional aspects of this culture that ...

Mystery markings in 20,000-year-old drawings decoded for first time. Ice Age hunter-gatherers used markings of animals prey to store information about the behaviour of species crucial to their ...

Artifacts found in a 20,000-year-old ice age 'ice cave' in Australia's remote Blue Mountains named Dargan Shelter could ...

Many unique animals lived during the Ice Age. Other than bears and cave lions, the period saw famous creatures such as the mammoth and saber-toothed cats roaming the land.

Archaeologists from the Australian Museum, the University of Sydney and The Australian National University (ANU), in ...

The last Ice Age made mountain conditions hostile, and our ancestors mostly retreated to the lowlands if they’d been living ...

Archaeologists and First Nations communities uncover 693 Ice Age-era stone artifacts in a high-altitude Blue Mountains cave, ...

The Robberg is one of southern Africa's most distinctive and widespread stone tool technologies. Robberg tools—which we found ...

Modern humans first arrived in Europe 43,000 years ago during the last ice age. One of the areas where they took up residence was the Swabian Jura in southern Germany. Excavated from the 1860s, six ...