Stone artefacts from a rock shelter in South Africa have yielded chemical traces of toxic plant compounds, offering what ...

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The development of new hunting projectiles by European hunter-gatherers during the Mesolithic may have been linked to territoriality in a rapidly-changing climate, according to a new study. The ...

Scientists say that a collection of small stones discovered in a rock shelter in Uzbekistan may be the world’s oldest arrowheads. Based on the artifacts’ location in the sedimentary layers, ...

Microliths are often interpreted as being part of composite tools, including projectile weapons, essential to efficient Homo sapiens hunting strategies. In Europe and Africa, these lithic toolkits are ...

Despite intense scientific inquiry, there are still major gaps in our knowledge about early human life. One major question that remains unanswered: when humans were first capable of complex cognition?

The development of new hunting projectiles by European hunter-gatherers during the Mesolithic may have been linked to territoriality in a rapidly-changing climate, according to a study published July ...