While few of us today know how to start a bonfire without matches or a lighter, learning to make fire was one of the most critical developments in human history. New evidence suggests humans figured it out hundreds of thousands of years earlier than previously thought. In a study published today in the journal Nature, […]
Oldest Shell Jewelry Workshop in Western Europe Dates Back 42,000 Years
Between 55,000 and 42,000 years ago, the Châtelperronian people lived in what is now modern-day France and northern Spain. Their tool industry is among the earliest known from this part of the world during the Upper Paleolithic, a time spanning 55,000 and 42,000 years ago. And as new research suggests, Châtelperronians also had a knack […]