Scientists say they found one of the oldest known symbolic objects bearing a human fingerprint in Europe. The print hints at ...

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

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

Archaeologists discovered a human fingerprint left on a rock in Spain now considered the oldest known human fingerprint.

BBC News reports that deeper analysis of the object revealed that the strange mark was actually a Neanderthal fingerprint, ...

At the San Lázaro rock shelter near Segovia in central Spain, a team of scientists has discovered a granite cobble bearing a ...

“The use of red ochre as a sunscreen must have enabled humans to traverse ... Dan Bishop/Discover Networking in the Paleolithic In addition to its use as a stand-in for charting human evolution, ochre ...

Nicknamed the “Red Lady” due to her ochre-coated bones, she was a member of the Magdalenian people of the late Upper Paleolithic—people not so unlike us. “The results show that several ...

For the first time in over 50 years, scientists have uncovered mid-Paleolithic human burials, complete with stone tools, animal bones, and chunks of red ochre—an iron-rich pigment used in burial ...

During the Upper Paleolithic period ... In one of these burials, covered in red ocher and arrayed with 10 drilled fox teeth, excavators discovered the skeleton of a middle-aged woman in 1949.

Dr. Gilligan and his co-authors reinterpret the evidence of recent discoveries in the development of clothing in their new Science Advances paper, "Paleolithic ... painting with ocher or ...