(Reuters) -Artifacts found at archeological sites in France and Spain along the Bay of Biscay shoreline show that humans have been crafting tools from whale bones since more than 20,000 years ago, ...

ISTANBUL (Reuters) -A set of carved stone animals - a fox, a vulture and a wild boar - is shedding light on the way prehistoric people told stories after being unearthed by archaeologists in ...

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In a cave overlooking the ocean on the southern coast of South Africa, archaeologists discovered thousands of stone tools, created by ancient humans roughly 20,000 years ago. By examining tiny details ...

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Once dismissed as sticks and forgotten in a museum, the 5,000-year-old tools show prehistoric people hunted whales far from the Arctic. Picture of Krista McGrath analyzing one of the harpoons that ...

Archaeological records indicate that prehistoric people in Europe relied on fire throughout the Ice Age—but the evidence drops off during its harshest period. Reading time 2 minutes Scholars generally ...

Artifacts are from archeological sites in France and Spain The tools were mainly for hunting, like projectile points Tools were made from bones of at least five whale species May 28 (Reuters) - ...