The Stone Age was a prehistoric period that lasted more than 3 million years, from the point when human ancestors began using stone tools until the time we invented metalworking. Archaeologists often ...

Archaeologists have unearthed a set of "truly significant" Stone Age artifacts during an excavation being conducted ahead of planned road improvement in northern England, researchers told Newsweek.

Rows of tiny crosses and dots run along the flank of a mammoth no bigger than your palm. Someone carved it from a tusk around 40,000 years ago, then went back and added the marks with care.

Two symposia "The Middle Paleolithic: climbing uphill slowly or going nowhere fast?" and "Stability and change in the Middle Paleolithic and Middle Stone Age" were held in Denver during the 2002 ...

Stone Age artifacts discovered in a German cave could push back the origins of writing by 30,000 years. willbrasil - stock.adobe.com The origins of writing aren’t set in stone. The ancient cave ...

Over 40,000 years ago, our early ancestors were already carving signs into tools and sculptures. According to a new analysis by linguist Christian Bentz at Saarland University and archaeologist Ewa ...

The oldest known depictions of fishing were discovered on a cave wall in Germany and may be the key to understanding early fishing techniques from the Stone Age. While scientists have long known that ...

In 1836, Christian Jürgensen Thomsen, a Danish antiquarian, brought the first semblance of order to prehistory, suggesting that the early hominids of Europe had gone through three stages of ...

A study of 125 skeletons from two Neolithic cemeteries in Hungary has revealed that men and women had clear gender roles — but sometimes those roles were fluid. When you purchase through links on our ...