An Austrian site occupied by humans from around 24,000 to 20,000 years ago documents a switch towards hunting reindeer for ...

Researchers have discovered fossil human footprints embedded in an ancient lakebed that show humans inhabited North America during the Last Glacial Maximum, in what is now New Mexico. Credit: National ...

Much of Earth's heat uptake is passed to the ocean, making ocean heat content key for understanding long-term climate ...

Whether for cooking, heating, as a light source or for making tools—it is assumed that fire was essential for the survival of ...

A recent Geoarchaeology study led by William C. Murphree and colleagues investigates three combustion features at the Ukrainian site of Korman’ 9, dated to the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM).

Stone Age humans mastered fire technology during Earth's harshest climate period 23,000 years ago, creating hearths that ...

Despite these new findings, the small number of fireplaces from the Last Glacial Maximum remains puzzling. "Was most of the evidence destroyed by the ice-age-typical, alternating freezing and ...

Archaeological records indicate that prehistoric people in Europe relied on fire throughout the Ice Age—but the evidence ...

“Or did people not find enough fuel during the Last Glacial Maximum? Did they not use fire, but instead relied on other technological solutions?” The fireplaces finally gave scientists an ...

Theopetra Cave, in Greece, believed to be the oldest human construction on earth, reopened to the public after 9 years of ...