Researchers working with Indigenous experts have uncovered fascinating information about a set of ancient rock engravings in southwestern Africa. The rock art was created by hunter-gatherers in what ...

During the Later Stone Age in what is now Namibia, rock artists imbued so much detail into their engravings of human and animal prints that current-day Indigenous trackers could identify which animals ...

[ Related: Butchered skulls point to Europe’s Ice Age cannibals. ] The study centers on the Zvejnieki cemetery site in northern Latvia. Dating back to about 7500 to 2500 BCE, more than 2,000 animal ...

Prehistoric people used a culinary method, similar to slow cooking today, to carefully extract animal teeth to use in decorative crafts, such as pendant-making, archaeologists have shown. It has long ...

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Expert trackers have been able to identify the species depicted in around 400 animal footprints carved on rocks in Namibia during the Stone Age. In most cases, they were also able to identify the ...

Explore the Neolithic Age, where farming, animal domestication, pottery, tools, and permanent settlements shaped the first ...

Dr Carly Ameen from the University of Exeter, another lead researcher on this project, explained to BBC News that almost half ...

Prehistoric hunter-gatherers were likely skilled seafarers who could make long and challenging journeys. Stone tools, animal bones and other artifacts unearthed in Malta indicate that humans first ...

Unlike many of their mostly meat-eating peers, a group of late Stone Age hunter-gatherers living in what is now northeastern Morocco had a largely plant-based diet. But despite dining for millennia on ...