An ancient granite pebble included indentations resembling a face, its nose a red dot. A study says it may have had symbolic ...

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In the depths of the San Lázaro rock-shelter in Segovia, Central Spain, archaeologists from the Complutense University of ...

In 1958, in a narrow trench of an eroded limestone cave near Maba Village in Shaoguan City, China, local farmers were digging ...

Archaeologists in Spain have unearthed a 43,000-year-old pebble bearing a Neanderthal fingerprint, potentially the oldest ...

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Noting how the finger-painted red dot combines with a series of natural depressions in the pebble to form an image, the ...

A face-shaped pebble marked with a red dot that was discovered in a Spanish cave may be proof that Neanderthals engaged in ...

In The Decline and Fall of the Human Empire, Henry Gee shows how we arrived at this crucial moment in history, beginning his story deep in the palaeolithic past and charting our dramatic rise from one ...

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As far as art goes, it's not going to win any awards. But this large pebble might be the earliest known representation of a face, experts say.

First detected in 2015, gravitational waves may not have had a direct hand in human evolution, but it certainly helped set ...