Neanderthals living in what is now Belgium made a kind of prehistoric Swiss Army Knife from the bones of a cave lion some 130,000 years ago. Found in the hugely significant Scladina Cave – which once ...

The bone is around 130,000 years old, and was discovered in Belgium. More recently,a team conducting ongoing excavations at Scaldina Cave archeological trove in central Belgium found an animal bone ...

Cotard, a small limestone cave that has been hidden for tens of thousands of years. The Loire Valley is famous for its ...

I am a bit of a stick in the mud with respect to Neanderthals: many of these studies simply ignore the possibility that these were made by modern humans who didn't end up contributing to the Eurasian ...

Deep in the Caucasus Mountains in southwestern Russia, a Neanderthal cave revealed a unique tool. Getty/iStock photo Tens of thousands of years ago, an ancient people left their possessions in a cave ...

Other tools were suitable for cutting meat, cracking open bones (to get at fatrich marrow) or scraping hides (useful for clothing, blankets or shelter). Yet other stone tools were used for woodworking ...

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Archaeologists working in Europe have found the oldest-known bone spear in Europe, dating back to the Neanderthal age between 70,000 and 80,000 years ago, according to a study published in the Journal ...

Clues from studies of ancient plants and animals have helped archaeologists pin down where the last Neanderthals found refuge ...

(CNN) — Stone tools unearthed in southwest China helped a mysterious group eke out a living in a cold and harsh environment 60,000 to 50,000 years ago. But whose hands shaped them? The answer could ...