300,000-year-old cave markings in Germany suggest Stone Age humans were wearing clothes. Humans skinned huge cave bears to keep warm, per markings on bones analyzed by experts.

A series of parallel lines engraved in an animal bone between 1.4 and 1.2 million years ago may be the earliest example of human symbolic behaviour. University of Bordeaux experts say no practical ...

Markings on the bones of today's ruminant animals has thrown doubt on the theory that dinosaurs were cold-blooded reptiles like snakes and lizards, say Barcelona researchers.

120,000-Year-Old Cattle Bone Carvings May Be World’s Oldest Surviving Symbols Archaeologists found the bone fragment—engraved with six lines—at a Paleolithic meeting site in Israel ...

The bone measures roughly four inches long and has 17 markings. T. Gąsior. The stereotypical image of a Neanderthal is that of a brutish, unintelligent and uncivilized caveman. However, a new ...

Paleontologists have discovered that around 15,000 years ago, British cave dwellers filleted and ate their dead relatives before inscribing markings on their bones in grisly prehistoric rituals.

Based on the shape, spacing and arrangement of these engravings, the team concluded that markings in eight panels in La Roche-Cotard cave were intentional shapes and patterns created by human hands.

A fossilized leg bone bearing cut marks made by stone tools might be the earliest evidence that ancient humans butchered and ate each other’s flesh. The 1.45-million-year-old hominin bone ...