BARCELONA — Your ancestors were hauling massive whale bones up steep cliffs and dragging them miles inland to their cave homes 20,000 years ago. New research reveals that Stone Age humans were widely ...

A groundbreaking new study has shattered previous conceptions about Paleolithic humans, proving they exploited marine resources for hunting tools and food as early as 20,000 years ago—much earlier ...

Western Europeans crafted hunting weapons out of bones from whales stranded on the Atlantic shoreline between 20,000 and 14,000 years ago, researchers report May 27 in Nature Communications.

Large projectile point made of Gray Whale bone from the Duruthy rockshelter, Landes, France, dated between 18,000 and 17,500 years ago. CREDIT: Alexandre Lefebvre. Get the Popular Science daily ...