The toe bone of a prehistoric deer carved with lines by Neanderthals 51,000 years ago is one of the oldest works of art ever found, according to a study released Monday. The discovery is further ...
When novelist Jefferson Bass shows up at Murder by the Book on Thursday, readers of his remarkable mystery Carved in Bone may need to solve a mystery of their own. That's because Jefferson Bass is not ...
A 51,000-year-old carved bone fragment may be one of the earliest works of art, researchers announced in a paper published this week in the journal Nature Ecology and Evolution. The work, made from a ...
A nearly 130,000-year-old bear bone was deliberately marked with cuts and might be one of the oldest art pieces in Eurasia crafted by the Neanderthals, researchers say. The roughly cylindrical bone, ...
Patterns deliberately etched onto a bone belonging to a giant deer are signs that Neanderthals possessed the capacity for symbolic thought. Neanderthals decorated themselves with feathers, drew cave ...
During the Middle Ages, people ventured into the cave now called Einhornhohle to collect unicorn bones. It’s tempting to wonder whether those medieval cryptid hunters would be disappointed or ...
The dig site at Castel di Guido in Italy featured numerous skeletons of straight-tusked elephants, from which many of the bone tools were produced. "Elephant bones for the Middle Pleistocene toolmaker ...
In the quiet heart of Middle Egypt, a whisper from the past just resurfaced. Archaeologists excavated a small, hollow whistle carved from a juvenile cow’s toe bone, its edges smoothed by human hands ...
IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. This is a carved alligator made of ...