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Palaeolithic Glaston, UK

During a relatively routine excavation of an early medieval site at Glaston in Rutland, a ULAS team uncovered much earlier remains which will have national, if not international significance. A group of bones protruding from what had been taken to be undisturbed sands proved a puzzling discovery for the archaeologists who had been used to seeing the darker, medieval features on the site. Investigation of the deposit unearthed a flint 'leaf point' sandwiched between the bones. This has been identified as being characteristic of similar flint tools found in Britain, Germany and Poland and can be broadly dated to c. 35,000 years old (the British Early Upper Palaeolithic). At this time Britain was joined to the rest of Europe, as sea levels were much lower than today. The climate would have been cold and dry and the environment (known as 'Mammoth Steppe') similar to that of modern Siberia...LINK

Bones, tools push back human settlement in Arctic Region

Humans lived within the Arctic Circle tens of thousands of years earlier than previously believed, paleontologists from Norway and Russia report.
The common assumption has been that humans first colonized the far north at the end of the last Ice Age, around 13,000 to 14,000 years ago. But stone artifacts, animal bones, and a mammoth tusk with human-made marks found at a Paleolithic site in the Russian Arctic push this date back to nearly 40,000 years ago... Link

Human presence in the European Arctic nearly 40,000 years ago

Abstract from an article in Nature...Link

Palaeolithic music

When archaeologists unearthed a bone flute in a cave in southern Germany, it was proof that humans had been making music for at least 40,000 years. But many scientists believe musical abilities developed far earlier - more than 200,000 years ago...Link

Ancient tools found at Carrow Road, UK

A cluster of rare flint tools unearthed at Norwich City's football ground could date back 12,000 years.

Archaeologists have found flint artefacts on the site of a new stand at the club's Carrow Road ground.

Experts believe the tools could be from the Upper Palaeolithic era... Link

The earliest settlement of Denmark

An article by Jørgen Holm.

The last twenty years have seen major growth in research into the Late Palaeolithic in Denmark, which may well be the most significant area of growth in the archaeology of this country. We can now establish that practically all the cultures/industries associated with the Weichselian Ice Age, which are known from other parts of the North European lowlands, are also represented in Denmark: the Hamburgian Culture, the Federmesser Culture and the Ahrensburgian Culture. In addition, there is the Bromme Culture, which appears to be a predominantly South Scandinavian phenomenon...Link