Cave painting of lions drawn on the walls of the Chauvet Pont d'Arc Cave in the south of France. It was painted about 30,000 years ago (Wikimedia Commons) Much of the world’s earliest great art is ...

Early humans carried pebbles shaped like babies' faces and appeared to care for disabled children in a sign they developed kindness and compassion millions of years before intelligence, researchers ...

Trust rather than lust is at the heart of the attention to detail and finely made form of handaxes from around 1.7 million years ago, according to a researcher. Trust rather than lust is at the heart ...

A team of archeologists and autism experts concludes that an autistic trait among early humans help them create the first realism art during the Ice Age. The ancestors' ability to focus on detail, a ...

Spikins is a survey of university students who went with Mr. Barry Wright, a medical researcher at the University of York, and found that 4% of students are self-closing spectra. And although students ...

Penny Spikins is a senior lecturer in the Archaeology of Human Origins at the University of York in York, United Kingdom. This website uses cookies to improve your experience while you navigate ...