2+ week, 4+ day ago   (131+ words) Based on their location, her research interpreted the deposit as ritual or symbolic rather than an ordinary domestic assemblage, although its precise function remains unproven. Compared to the many representations of people and animals from the Upper Paleolithic Period, the…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (233+ words) Culture and Tourism Minister Mehmet Nuri Ersoy called the work a composite sculpture in a style not encountered before. “I believe this discovery, which opens the door to new questions about the earliest periods of human history, will resonate widely…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (280+ words) Representation of a Neanderthal with a tool. (Martyman/CC BY-SA 3.0) The new modelling offers a way to resolve long-standing questions about technological diversity in Arabian Middle Palaeolithic assemblages. Population history, rather than purely environmental factors, appears to explain much of…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago   (290+ words) A distinctive painted pottery tradition from a Saudi Arabian oasis may represent one of the earliest examples of ancient branding yet identified in ceramic production. New research places its beginnings at Qurayyah Oasis around 3,600 years ago, where potters developed a…...