Amazon Prime Day is live. See the best deals HERE. Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Mammoths were not the only enormous beasts ancient humans hunted. Elephant ancestors were also on the menu.

The'incredibly beautiful' cave carvings show how humans thrived in the Arabian desert. The engravings are traced to show 19 life-sized camels and 3 equids. Naturalistic animals belonging to the middle phase are traced in white. The more stylized and standardized depictions of the later phase traced in blue. Unidentified lines traced in black.

Prehistoric graves show women wielded more than early archeologists gave them credit for. Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Some 6,000 years ago in the northern reaches of modern Latvia, a young woman died. Afterwards, a group of early humans buried her in an ancient, sacred place along a lakeshore. They carefully lowered her small teenage frame into the ground, gently placing a stone ax, 28 flint flakes, 15 blades, and a stone scraper beside her.

The extinction of large animals led to the human brain growing, a new study reveals. When humans first emerged in Africa 2.6 million years ago the average animal size was more than 1,000 pounds, making them easy prey. Throughout the Pleistocene era, creatures' sizes decreased by 90 percent, which forced our ancient ancestors to developing cunning and bold methods to capture their next meal. As they shifted to hunting small, swift prey animals, humans developed higher cognitive abilities and experienced a growth of brain volume from 650cc to 1,500cc. When humans first emerged in Africa 2.6 million years ago the average animal size was more than 1,000 pounds, making them easy prey Previous research shows that early humans survived by hunting large game, which provided them with the necessary fat and sources of energy to survive.

Piano players may have more in common with a caveman than you might think, if the latest scientific findings are to be believed. Experts have previously argued that the evolution of language in our early ancestors led to advances stone age tools. But new research suggests that developments in areas of the brain used when we master musical instruments are responsible. Researchers from The University of East Anglia have been examining a'revolutionary' step forward in stone tool crafting around 1.75 million years ago. Around 1.75 million years ago, early humans moved from making simple tools from rocks and pebbles to producing two-sided, shaped tools like axes and cleavers. Researchers from the University of East Anglia wanted to better understand the link between brain development and the cognitive abilities behind creating these tools.