JERUSALEM — Long before cave paintings and figurines appeared, our ancestors were already expressing themselves on stone ...

Archaeologists in Marbella, Spain have uncovered a rock which contains ancient prehistoric engravings, Ancient Origins ...

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 ...

About 40,000 years ago, near the dawn of the 30-millennia-long period known as the Upper Paleolithic, the first anatomically modern humans suddenly and mysteriously revolutionized their cultures ...

Since strong arguments can be advanced that many Upper Paleolithic societies in Southwest Europe were transegalitarian societies with significant inequalities, I, together with D’Ann Owens, began to ...

The objects are of a type that were made and used across Europe in the Upper Paleolithic period (the third and last subdivision of the Paleolithic, or Old Stone Age), which covers the latter part ...

2010), as well as a much higher population density among Upper Paleolithic modern humans compared to Neanderthals (Mellars & French 2011). Conard, N. C. & Bolus, M. Radiocarbon dating the late ...

The fragmented tooth of individual UKY001 excavated from an archeological layer at the Ust-Kyakhta-3 site dated to the Upper Paleolithic, around 14,000 years old. G. Pavlenok (Published in ...

Prehistory. Upper Paleolithic. Homo Sapiens painting a bison during a ritual ceremony inside a cave. Picture: Alamy In fact, it suggests that by the Iron Age - between 1,700 and 3,000 years ago - 55 ...

The drawings differ from many of the prehistoric cave paintings discovered from the Upper Paleolithic period in that they are completely geometric and do not depict humans, animals, or any other ...

The basis of many Upper Paleolithic tool forms from both the Old and New Worlds was the blade flake, a thin, parallel-sided flake that is at least twice as long as it is wide. Blade flakes were ...