Blue residue on a 13,000-year-old stone artifact, long believed to be an oil lamp, may paint a new picture of Paleolithic art and culture ...

The discovery of a stone long overlooked in a German museum suggests that Ice Age communities experimented with vivid hues ...

Analyzing a stone from the Paleolithic site Mühlheim-Dietesheim in Germany, however, researchers identified the earliest known use of blue mineral pigment in Europe. The results of the study, ...

In a new discovery that illuminates new insights into the early prehistoric origins of art and creativity, researchers have ...

What would the hunter-gatherers of the Paleolithic era think if they could see people today trying to emulate their diet?

The team found that the pigment was azurite, a deep-blue copper mineral. At ~13,000 years old, it represents the earliest ...

Earlier this week, we reported on a Swedish archaeologist who spent the last three years sailing the fjords in a replica boat similar to those the Vikings may have used. Not to be outdone, Japanese ...

Archaeologists have found an extraordinary cluster of Stone Age artifacts that may have been the personal gear of a single prehistoric individual.

Experiments and simulations show Paleolithic paddlers could outwit the powerful Kuroshio Current by launching dugout canoes from northern Taiwan and steering southeast toward Okinawa. A modern crew ...

Archaeologists estimate that humans first arrived on the Ryukyu Islands off the southwestern coast of Japan sometime between 35,000 and 27,500 years ago. How they did so, however, remains a mystery, ...

When and where the earliest modern human populations migrated and settled in East Asia are relatively well known. However, how these populations moved between islands on treacherous stretches of sea ...

The team set out in their handmade canoe, making the entire experience as authentic as possible. A team led by anthropologist Yousuke Kaifu from the University of Tokyo created various simulations, ...