Stone Age people in Belgium were hunting with spear-throwers more than 30,000 years ago — the earliest known evidence of such a weapon in Europe, a new study suggests. After investigating more ...

Spears work better when thrown from a height, but a surprising study finds the same does not apply to weapons launched from an atlatl (spear thrower ... spears found at Paleolithic sites.

Paleolithic hunters often inhabited landscapes ... inferring anything about the spear throwers requires a contextual understanding of which hunting strategy benefited them most.

Jan Ritch-Frel: Alex Marshack was well-known for his idea that many of the social institutions we live by today are derived in large part from the “thought matrix of the Paleolithic”—the ideas and ...

Jan Ritch-Frel: Alex Marshack was well-known for his idea that many of the social institutions we live by today are derived in large part from the “thought matrix of the Paleolithic”—the ...

This is how the Irish poet Richard Murphy described Newgrange in his 1985 poem of the same name, paying homage to one of the oldest—and biggest—prehistoric structures in all of Europe.

Formed from prehistoric vegetation, the majority of these deposits are found in parts of Europe, North America, and Asia that were lush, tropically located regions during the Carboniferous.

In the distance, a small band of prehistoric humans set up campfire to cook their meal. The giant fossil skull of an extinct elephant, discovered in northern India’s Kashmir Valley in 2000 ...

“I am at a top London hospital and yet at times I feel as though we are operating in the stone age,” one doctor tells the FT. For example, doctors email lists of patients to themselves to ...

We’re talking about a real-life event that only happens once every 80,000 years in the Northern Hemisphere, so maybe try not to miss it: A comet not seen since the Stone Age is going to light up ...

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