Archaeologists often break up this lengthy time span into three periods — the Paleolithic (3.3 million to 12,000 years ago), the Mesolithic (12,000 to 10,000 years ago), and the ...

The Isle of Skye is the largest and northernmost of the major islands in the Inner Hebrides of Scotland. And here, ...

Stone tools and stone circles discovered in coastal Scotland show that prehistoric people settled farther north than anyone ...

Thousands of stone tools discovered in a South African cave reveal that Ice Age humans had developed ... colleagues to hypothesize that the Paleolithic people there shared tool-making knowledge ...

to represent events, people, places, or things — including other abstract ideas (love, freedom, etc.). Upper Paleolithic (UP): A prehistoric Period. An assortment of prehistoric technologies ...

Not until the late 19th century did humans learn of the extraordinary art produced by their Ice Age ancestors, the Cro-Magnon people of Western ... what's called the Upper Paleolithic era.

During the Middle Paleolithic, when Neanderthals were ... in Europe and Africa were inventing new tools during this period, people of East Asia stuck to only the most basic tools that remained ...

Minatogawa refers to people whose remains were unearthed in ... populations of the Japanese islands all the way from the Paleolithic age down to the present day,” said Jun Gojobori, a lecturer ...

The paleolithic, or paleo, diet – aka the stone age, hunter-gatherer or caveman ... But is it really a good idea to eat like cave people? Supporters suggest modern food isn’t suitable for ...

While the Paleolithic period involved a nomadic lifestyle and the invention of stone tools, the Neolithic period was ushered in with the development of agriculture and settled communities.