Others perceive some prehistoric figurines—including a half-lion, half-man —not as imaginative works but literal depictions of hallucinations experienced by tribal shamans. The Venus has ...

Archaeologists are revealing the secrets of a long-lost Stone Age civilisation – believed to be the oldest in the world.

Archaeologists are revealing the secrets of a long-lost Stone Age civilization - believed to be the oldest in the world.

Not unpredictably, the dials are remarkable. One named Kaleidoscope is a mosaic of lapis lazuli, turquoise, tsavorite and ...

In one particularly spectacular example, a man is portrayed in semi-skeletal ... jewellery (sometimes made of jade!). But their prehistoric Garden of Eden had emerged out of much more challenging ...

The figurines speak to us from a time before history, but only to pose a riddle. The riddles of the Grand Canyon are not confined to prehistoric ... came the hairy man from the East, looking ...

From prehistoric tools to lost cities ... Perhaps most significantly, they uncovered a series of female figurines that have provided new insights into the religious practices and social structures of ...

Until now, the earliest known ivory artifacts came from the Upper Paleolithic, between 50,000 and 10,000 years ago. A few ...