Early modern humans could have spent their evenings sitting around the fire, playing flutes made of bone and singing songs 40,000 years ago, newly discovered ancient musical instruments indicate. The ...

An archaeological study describes symbolic objects of the Levantine Aurignacian culture. The Levantine Aurignacian culture exhibits similarities with the Aurignacian culture in Eurasia. However, the ...

Archaeologists have discovered that prehistoric tools and artwork from western Europe owe their existence to an even earlier culture in the Middle East. Carbon dating of a cave in Israel supports a ...

New dates from Geißenklösterle Cave in Southwest Germany document the early arrival of modern humans and early appearance of art and music. The new dates use improved methods to remove contamination ...

Vol. 53, No. 1/2, Special Issue: The 19th EAA Annual Meeting in Pilsen: What is Changing and When — Post-LBK Life in Central Europe and The Life of Lithic Tools in the Palaeolithic: Identification and ...

Figure 1: Map showing the location of Vogelherd cave. The Holocene age of the human skeletal remains from Vogelherd places the question of who made the earliest Aurignacian in Europe in doubt. At ...

Early modern humans could have spent their evenings sitting around the fire, playing bone flutes and singing songs 40,000 years ago, newly discovered ancient musical instruments indicate. The bone ...

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Vol. 115, No. 20 (May 15, 2018), pp. 5145-5150 (6 pages) The Levantine Aurignacian is a unique phenomenon in the local ...

Anthropologists have uncovered a 38,000-year-old engraved image in a rock shelter in France - a finding that marks some of the earliest known graphic imagery in Western Eurasia. The findings provide a ...

Between 35,000 and 45,000 years ago, Neanderthals in Europe and Asia were replaced by the first modern humans. Why and how this transition occurred remains somewhat controversial. New research from ...