Modern Japanese appear to be genetically descended from the Paleolithic Minatogawa people, according to DNA analysis of human remains in Okinawa Prefecture dating from 20,000 years ago. According ...

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The discovered sites and items, spanning from the Paleolithic period of the Stone Age to the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911), provide outstanding examples from more than 1,700 archaeological excavations ...

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Prehistoric Man in Mammoth Cave Some 2,000 years ago Indians went deep into the great cavern in Kentucky to mine gypsum, leaving behind them many traces of a society that was just beginning to ...

He became to his people the sorcerer, medicine man, curer of ills and conqueror ... placing his story in prehistoric times because its picture of humanity would be too harsh if laid in the here ...

Two head wounds on the fossilized skull of Paleolithic man suggest he died from the trauma, perhaps in a violent fight with another person, researchers reported in PLOS One on July 3. The skull was ...

These findings shed fresh light on the behaviour of Paleolithic hominins - a family of prehistoric man - offering crucial new understanding into the evolution of abstract thought and culture ...

URUMA, Okinawa Prefecture--Human remains dating to as far back as 10,000 years ago that were unearthed in a cave here could prove to be the missing link between early Paleolithic people and later ...