Time Period Index (Prehistoric)

Homo rudolfensis is an early human species that lived in East Africa between c. 2.5 and 1.8 million years ago. It is known from...

The Longmen Grottoes, a Buddhist cave complex located 13 kilometers south of Luoyang in China's Henan province, form some of the...

The appearance of simple stone tools, widely known as Oldowan tools or the Oldowan industry, marked the beginning of our technological...

Rock art (also known as parietal art) is an umbrella term which refers to several types of creations...

The woolly mammoth, Mammuthus primigenius, is an extinct herbivore related to elephants who trudged across the steppe-tundras of...

The Seated Woman of Çatalhöyük is a 8,000-year-old Neolithic baked-clay figurine unearthed at Çatalhöyük, a Neolithic...