Patterns deliberately etched onto a bone belonging to a giant deer are signs that Neanderthals possessed the capacity for symbolic thought. Neanderthals decorated themselves with feathers, drew cave ...

MOGADISHU (Reuters) – Somali artisan Muse Mohamud Olosow carefully sorts through a huge pile of camel bones, discarded by a slaughterhouse in Mogadishu, selecting pieces that he will carve into ...

The first known depiction of an animal from the Americas is an image of a mammoth engraved on a mammoth bone, suggests a paper accepted for publication in the Journal of Archaeological Science.

MOSCOW, November 13. /TASS Correspondent Ulyana Lavtsevich/. Alexandra Nypevgi, managing a bone-carving workshop in the Chukchi village of Uelen, told us with the modesty, typical for northern peoples ...

Scientists have discovered a giant deer toe bone, engraved by Neanderthals — a hint that our ancient cousins had conceptual imagination. Beneath the pine and birch forest of northern Germany lies ...

After lying hidden for millennia, the bison bone was accidentally discovered in 2005 in the North Sea during a fishing expedition. The artifact is around 13,500 years old, dating back to a time when ...

In Lucknow, bone carving persists as a delicate art form, transforming buffalo and camel bones into intricate creations. Artisans, inspired by Mughal designs and nature, meticulously carve dagger ...

A group of mainly elderly women in the town of Varnavino in Russia's Nizhny Novgorod region are trying to preserve the dying art of bone carving.

He says he is one of just four artisans left in the country who still work with the bones of camel (SOUNDBITE) (Somali) ARTISAN, MUSE MOHAMUD OLOSOW, SAYING:"Camels' bones are stronger and bigger than ...