The Australian aborigines wear practically no clothes, grow no crops, live by hunting and berry picking. Their major art consists of rock pictures of spirits called Wondjina. First painted centuries ...

The finding adds evidence to the debate as to whether Neanderthals were capable of creating art that was symbolic. In this ...

Excavation at Dwaalhoek has uncovered ancient treasures that have revealed ancient San and farmer interactions.

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Neanderthals were even better craftsmen than thought, a new analysis of 300,000-year-old wooden tools has revealed. By Franz Lidz In 1836, Christian Jürgensen Thomsen, a Danish antiquarian, brought ...