R esearchers have determined that a collection of 12,000-year-old tiny stone objects found at a Stone Age site in the Jordan ...

The researchers believe that Neanderthals, an extinct species of human known to have lived in that area as far back as ...

Ancient wooden tools found at a site in Gantangqing in southwestern China are approximately 300,000 years old, new dating has ...

MR. BURKITT'S “Old Stone Age”, a textbook for students, may for the purposes of a wider public be regarded as a progress report. Although it is a study of the period as a whole, and as such is ...

Using well-preserved ancient DNA, researchers have created a life-like facial reconstruction of a woman who lived in ...

The Stone Age timeline encompasses a huge chunk of prehistory—and life wasn’t only about hunting and gathering. ... In 1991, a 5300-year-old mummy was discovered in a glacier in Europe.

7,000-year-old sculpture resembling an alien creature links Stone Age societies By . Hannah Sparks. Published Dec. 22, 2024, 1:54 p.m. ET.

A new analysis of a carved mammoth tusk first discovered four decades ago reveals it may be the world's oldest boomerang.

Archaeologists have found a stone-paved cellar at a 5,000-year-old Stone Age site in Denmark, a discovery that points to a distinct leap in construction technology in ancient Scandinavia.

Researchers have determined that a collection of 12,000-year-old tiny stone objects found at a Stone Age site in the Jordan Valley were likely used to spin fibers into yarn, ...