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27 November 2025 The Future is the Product of the Past

Examples of stone artifacts from the Ahmarian levels at Ksar Akil (a, b) and the Proto-Aurignacian layers at Grotta di Fumane (c) and Grotta di Castelcivita (d). Although the finished tools appear similar, Falcucci and Kuhn found that the technological methods used to produce them were markedly different. Panels a and b are from the lithic collection of the University of Tübingen; panel c is adapted from Falcucci et al. (2022), and panel d from Falcucci et al. (2024).

Europe’s First Toolmakers Were Innovators — Not Imitators, New Study Reveals

17 October 2025

Europe’s first toolmakers developed their own stone technology 42,000 years ago, according to a new study that challenges the idea...

One of the standing stones the team found, which might have been used to mark territory. Credit: Hamza Benattia

Archaeologists in the Tangier Peninsula Discovered Three Ancient Cemeteries, Including a Stone Burial Dating to Around 4,000 Years Ago

17 May 2025

A significant archaeological discovery in northern Morocco’s Tangier Peninsula, situated just south of the Strait of Gibraltar, has led to...