In the 1980s archaeologists uncovered an uncanny object from Star Carr in England. In 2018, researchers determined it was possibly the first crayon used by hunter-gatherers to draw animal skin and ...

For the first time, researchers have found evidence that people were using red ochre in West Africa during the Middle Stone Age. Dated to between 30,000 and 40,000 years ago, the rust-colored ...

Come to the first human beings in Wales, this cave provided shelter for a group of hunter-gatherers 250,000 years ago. It was when the cave was being used as an ammunition dump during the war that ...

The researchers unearthed 427 artefacts, including stone tools and the first ochre pieces- the red-coloured rock used in ...

Around 100,000 years ago, a group of Homo sapiens-like humans buried five of their dead at Timshenet cave, along with grave goods consisting of animal remains and chunks of red ochre. At the same ...