A new study has shown that as early as the Stone Age, people in Africa traveled long distances to procure colorful stone, the ...

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.

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 ...

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.

Over 100 small stone objects from Neolithic period are the earliest instance of 'spindle whorls,' used to spin fibers into ...