When piecing together the cultural practices of ancient humans, traditional archaeologists rely on clues from artifacts such ...

Cave lions, larger than today's African lions, once dominated Ice Age Europe's mammoth steppes. These formidable predators, ...

Artifacts found in a 20,000-year-old ice age 'ice cave' in Australia's remote Blue Mountains named Dargan Shelter could ...

Not many ancient artefacts are more significant than this, a 35-40,000 year old statue carved out of mammoth ivory using only a flint stone knife, and being one of the oldest-known statues ever ...

From woolly rhinos to wolves, brown bears to bison, many Ice Age animals have been recovered from the world’s permafrost. Apart from being slightly crushed and maybe a little bit nibbled, very often ...

An upper incisor (fang) of an American lion skull on display in the University of Alaska Museum of the North. (Photo by Ned Rozell) The lions that prowled ice-age Alaska ate other things, too.

I’m Dave Miller. Roughly 13,000 years ago, big ice age animals like saber toothed cats and the American lion and mammoths started going extinct in the Los Angeles Basin.

The entrance to an Ice Age cave that nobody has entered for 16,000 years has been discovered in southern Germany. During excavations in the town of Engen, in the district of Konstanz, a team led ...

A missing fragment of a famous Ice Age figurine discovered 20 years ago has been unearthed, presenting some puzzling questions for archaeologists. During excavations at the Hohle Fels cave in ...

University College London. "Giant stone artefacts found on rare Ice Age site in Kent, UK." ScienceDaily. ScienceDaily, 6 July 2023. <www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2023 / 07 / 230706002155.htm>.

For instance, a recent study of 166 modern lion skulls from Zambia revealed that 68 had healed or partially healed injuries associated with taking down prey. Put another way, to hunt another day.

The American lion, otherwise known as Pathera atrox, was the largest extinct cat to live in North America during the last ice age, according to the National Park Service.