Such artefacts have been recovered in and around Scandinavia from the Stone Age into the Bronze Age, indicating that animal skin boats were likely well-known and in use in the region. open image ...

Nillson studied historic migration patterns to determine that the woman likely had light skin and dark hair. She is clothed in tanned animal skins made with Stone Age techniques. Photograph by ...

Emmerich Kamper crafted a speculatively Paleolithic-style skin canoe for the show Surviving the Stone Age, but she'd only used it on short jaunts. If they took animal skin boats on a multi-day ...

“On the contrary, in these locations, the skin is much closer to the bones, which makes marking the bone inevitable when skinning an animal.” The Schöningen site in Germany is most famous for ...

300,000-year-old cave markings in Germany suggest Stone Age humans were wearing clothes ... to indicate that humans in Europe skinned the animals, a new study found. The markings were found ...

The artworks are so detailed that modern-day Indigenous trackers have been able to identify the species of animals, as well as their general age and sex. Stone Age depictions of human footprints ...

The study, led by Archaeologist Tuija Kirkinen, was aimed at investigating how these highly degraded plant- and animal-based materials could be traced through soil analysis. During the Stone Age ...

“Namibia's rock faces contain numerous Stone Age depictions of animals and humans, as well as human footprints and animal tracks,” noted the researchers. “Until now, the latter have received ...

And the neat layers of the urine mounds or “middens,” which form where the animals habitually relieve ... from the Middle to the Later Stone Age: that's when our early ancestors developed ...

They also appear to have been an important animal tracking tool. In present-day Namibia, prehistoric peoples from the Late Stone Age put so much detail into their engravings of human and animal ...

Engravings of animal tracks and human footprints appear in numerous traditions of prehistoric rock art around the world and many of these engravings can be found in Namibia. Detail of Stone Age ...