Ephedra seeds found in an ancient burial pit may be the earliest evidence yet for the medicinal use of plants.

Gone for ever is the straightforward succession of Palaeolithic cultures from Chellian to Magdalenian as laid down in the Musee Prehistorique. Even so early as 1912, when Breuil produced his ...

MR. BURKITT'S “Old Stone Age”, a textbook for students, may for the purposes of a wider public be regarded as a progress report. Although it is a study of the period as a whole, and as such is ...

A series of ancient drawings at a Palaeolithic site in Germany appear to show fish caught in nets, suggesting that the use of this fishing technology may go back further than previously thought.

They have been observed in various contexts where our ancient ancestors and other extinct species lived, some dating back to the Lower Palaeolithic period. The earliest examples have been found in ...

This book is a long-term history of how the human body has been understood in Europe from the Palaeolithic to the present day, focusing on specific moments of change. Developing a multi-scalar ...

Middle palaeolithic tools, early historic pots, bricks and several antiquities were found during the surface exploration at the Vadakkupattu site several decades ago. Following this, the ASI ...