Poison-laced weaponry may have entered the arsenal of European hunter-gatherers more than five millennia ago, say the authors ...

Scientists have unravelled a mystery about the disappearance of dwarf hippos and elephants that once roamed the picturesque landscape on the Mediterranean island of Cyprus before palaeolithic humans ...

Map of Cyprus showing the approximate position of fossil sites where dwarf elephants and hippos have been retrieved. Credit: ...

To try and reconstruct the ways in which these projectiles might have been used, the researchers analyzed the ballistic properties of more than 500 Palaeolithic arrowheads from 25 different sites ...

Scientists have unraveled a mystery about the disappearance of dwarf hippos and elephants that once roamed the picturesque ...

Britain has a rich and well-documented earlier Palaeolithic record, which provides a unique resource to investigate population dynamics and the relationship with north-west Europe during the Middle ...

NICOSIA, Sept. 19 (Xinhua) -- A recent study suggests that the first humans to settle on the eastern Mediterranean island of Cyprus were responsible for driving two unique megafauna species to ...

“As a typical representative of stone tool technology in the Middle Palaeolithic, the method is a landmark invention in the history of human evolution,” said Zhao Qingpo, the Chinese site ...

Malaysia now boasts five Unesco World Heritage Sites, including Gunung Mulu National Park in Sarawak, Kinabalu Park in Sabah, ...

A Japanese carrion crow examines the fruit of its labors On the Pacific island of New Caledonia, the crows demonstrate a tool-making, and tool using, capability comparable to Palaeolithic man’s.