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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Around 42,000 years ago, Homo sapiens in Europe ushered in a type of prehistoric Renaissance known as the Aurignacian, characterized by the appearance of artistic creations and aesthetically refined ...

Europe was a desolate region for Stone Age humanity if a new study is to be believed - as its researchers claim only 1,500 humans lived on the continent. While it is known humans arrived in the region ...