Archaeologists from Israel have announced the discovery of hundreds of hand-axes, most likely used by prehistoric humans from five hundred thousand years ago at Jaljulia, north-east of Tel Aviv.
Shamans and snakes, perhaps: The subjects of the glyphs on the ceiling of the ‘19th Unnamed Cave’ in Alabama are hard to make out, but then, they were drawing in the dark
Far from being solely symbolic in purpose, use-wear analysis shows residue of animals on Italian Bronze Age blades. But humans don’t generally confine butchery to the beasts
Research has shown that archaic hominins at the 500,000-year-old Revadim site in Israel reused Acheulian flint tools to stay connected to their ancestors.