A study of 125 skeletons from two Neolithic cemeteries in Hungary has revealed that men and women had clear gender roles — ...

Over 40,000 years ago, our early ancestors were already carving signs into tools and sculptures. According to a new analysis ...

The origins of writing aren’t set in stone. The ancient cave peoples weren’t as illiterate as portrayed in popular media.

In a paper published in PNAS, they reveal not only that these ancient carvings were applied in an intentional, systematic ...

Strange symbols carved onto a Stone Age mammoth ivory plate found at a cave in southwest Germany could be the earliest known ...

Sculptures and tools from the Stone Age show markings that could be an early precursor to written language, according to a new analysis.

The third grave carried two children with a third degree relation—probably cousins—and the fourth grave had a young woman and ...

Researchers have uncovered compelling evidence that Stone Age humans were engraving complex, meaningful symbol systems onto ...

Mysterious signs engraved on objects reveal that a form of proto-writing may have been used in Europe 40,000 years ago, tens ...

A new study of ancient pottery adds to evidence that hunter-gatherers in Europe ate more than meat and developed early ...

More than 40,000 years ago, Ice Age humans were carving repeated patterns of dots, lines, and crosses into tools and small ...

“The artifacts date back to tens of thousands of years before the first writing systems, to the time when Homo sapiens left ...