Lorraine Boissoneault | Author, Body Weather: Notes on Chronic Illness in the Anthropocene Exterior view of the entrance of Fa-Hien Lena cave in Sri Lanka, where archaeological evidence suggests ...

Researchers have unveiled new evidence showing that early humans living in Sri Lanka around 48,000 years ago crafted hunting tools from animal bones. Beads, awls used to make clothing or nets, and ...

Delhi's official circles are buzzing with news that the Director General of the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) is planning a three-month ‘road trip’ to China. Dr Rakesh Tewari's pet project is ...

Scientists have discovered evidence of the oldest use of bows and arrows by prehistoric humans outside of Africa, in a cave in Sri Lanka. Fragments of arrowheads, made from the bone of boar, deer, ...

Fa-Hien Lena (Cave) or Pahiyangala as it is also known, is a prehistoric cave associated with the Chinese priest Fa-Hien who is believed to have stayed there in the 5 th century AD. The cave is ...

Ancient hunter-gatherers from Sri Lanka’s western rainforests used a quartz-containing “flexible toolkit” to hunt small mammals, new research shows. The researchers discovered South Asia’s oldest ...

Ancient bow-and-arrow technology dating back some 48,000 years has been discovered in a Sri Lankan cave, making it the oldest evidence of archery to be found in this part of the world. Ornamental ...

Bone projectile points (A to H) and scrapers (I to K) from Fa-Hien Lena. (A and B) Geometric bipoints, with (B) coming from phase D context 146; (C and F) hilted bipoint, red arrows indicate cut ...