An international team of archaeologists has uncovered 14,000-year-old stone tools on the Greek island of Limnos. This is now the oldest-known settlement in the Aegean. Stains from post holes could mark the oldest structures in Maryland. “We have three or four wigwams, built on top of each other, as early as 1290, and maybe older,” […]

A 35,000-year-old bone flute crafted from griffon vulture bone has been unearthed in Germany’s Hohle Fels cave.  “It is unambiguously the oldest instrument in the world,” Nicholas Conard of the University of Tuebingen told the Associated Press.    He talks about the flute and the Venus figurine found in the same cave on National Public Radio.   […]