paleolithic

Scientists date France’s Font-de-Gaume cave art for the first time

Scientists have for the first time directly dated the cave paintings at Font-de-Gaume in the Dordogne region of southwestern France, revealing that a bison figure was drawn between 13,461 and 13,162 years ago. The results, published March 9 in the…

300,000-year-old wooden tools found in China

An international research team has unearthed 35 wooden tools dating back 300,000 years at an archaeological site in southwest China, offering new insights into early human technology and diet in East Asia. The discovery, published Friday in the journal Science,…

Researchers dugout canoe with stone tools and traveled from Taiwan to Japan

A team of researchers has successfully recreated a 30,000-year-old voyage by paddling the "Sugime" dugout canoe 140 miles from Taiwan to Japan's Yonaguni Island in approximately 45 hours, using only Paleolithic stone tools for construction and natural navigation methods to…