🚨New paper reviewing the early archaeological record & potential tool users ✅ My conclusion: tool technology is yet another adaptive milestone in human evolution that emerged over time across multiple taxa rather than as a species-specific breakthrough shorturl.at/c3LrR

🇪🇸👋 A Multisensory Analysis of the #Moisture Course of the #Cave of #Altamira (#Spain): Implications for Its #Conservation ✍️ Vicente Bayarri et al. 🔗 brnw.ch/21wQfpj

GÖBEKLİTEPE (TURKEY) Göbeklitepe was first identified as an archaeological site in 1963 during a survey conducted by Turkish and American scientists. It is located 15 km northeast of Şanlıurfa, on a mountainous area near the Örencik Village. muze.gov.tr/muze-detay?sec…

Oldest unequivocal complex hunting poison recipe

Altamira cave, Cantabria, Spain. Engraved red deer stag. Magdalenian.

NEWS!!!! We start the week presenting a new paper of our group PreGraphity We present the results of the archaeological work that we carried out in the decorated cave of #Arenaza (Galdames, Basque Country)

We are back again with a new #QuizPaleoArt. Today we ask you about an archaeological site with an exceptional collection of portable art Would you be able to answer our question?

Ancient humans consistently used bone tools at least one million years earlier than was previously thought go.nature.com/4ipxNON

I write about this cool fossil face found in Spanish cave belongs to first known Western European | Science | AAAS science.org/content/articl…

Proud to be part of this team and this paper in nature. The face of the first hominine in Western Europe. A remarkable finding directly associated with quartz and flint artifacts. IPHES-CERCA CENIEH Uniovi.CISPAC

Good morning‼️ We are pleased to announce that our lab director 👨‍🔬Diego Garate has once again participated in the annual field campaign in the Chauvet cave 🦁🦏 , a unique place for mankind and at the forefront of rock art research 🔍🔬

Linguistic capacity was present in the Homo sapiens population 135 thousand years ago doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.…

Off the wall hypothesis. We know H. erectus and Australopithecus lived in the same habitat at the same time for a short while. We have some reasons to think erectus was doing collective big game hunting. We have some reason to think that Australopiths were more similar to

These are digital tracings on a cave wall, an Indigenous Australian art form. Unlike other Australian art, they do not rely on motifs and figures to visually symbolise a traditional story, rendering them silent without a narrator. #WednesdayWisdom 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2…

In Search of the Origins of Distance Hunting

Las Chimeneas cave, Cantabria, Spain. Red deer stags. Magdalenian. A hidden chamber that only one or two persons fit in. Purpose?#paleolithic #paleoart #ancientart

The technology of the earliest European cave paintings: El Castillo Cave, Spain doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.…

Three Lines. Some 20,000 years ago or more, a Paleolithic “artist” engraved three separate lines to make the figure of an animal. There are two of these figures in this image. Can you see them? What animal are they? #Paleolithic #PaleoArt #RockArt #Archaeology #CaveArt

A magnificent long-haired mammoth from Pech Merle drawn ~25,000 years ago. A woolly mammoth’s thick outer guard hairs could be almost 1 m long. They probably shed their heaviest hairs in spring. Pech Merle is one of the few French caves still open to the public #IceAgeArt