Archaeologists often break up this lengthy time span into three periods — the Paleolithic (3.3 million to 12,000 years ago), ...

Step into the brutal world of the Stone Age, where survival meant mastering the art of weaponry. Explore the savage tools our ancestors wielded—from bone daggers to stone-tipped arrows—and uncover the ...

A nearly complete skeleton found in a cave in France belonged to a group known as the Palaeolithic dogs and its skeleton ...

The findings add to an emerging picture of systematic seafaring in the Stone Age. “There’s this new world of Mediterranean crossings in the Mesolithic that we didn’t know about,” says ...

Archaeologists are revealing the secrets of a long-lost Stone Age civilization - believed to be the oldest in the world.

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Archaeologists have long assumed that Stone Age tombs in Ireland were built for royalty. But a new analysis of DNA from 55 skeletons found in these 5,000-year-old graves suggests that the tombs ...

Excavations at a cave on the island of Malta have uncovered stone tools, cooking site and animal skeletons from 8,500 years ago — 1,000 years before the first farmers arrived on the island ...

An ancient hunter likely wore it as a protective charm, since the bear was the most powerful and dangerous animal that lived in the area during the Stone Age. "Słupcio" — or "little guy from ...

The prehistoric settlements of Bhatala and Mowad date back to the palaeolithic period (Old Stone Age spanning 2 million years and around 10,000 BCE), holding remnants of a time when early humans ...

Neanderthals might have lived in today’s southwestern China during the Middle Stone Age, newly discovered tools similar to those previously found only in Europe and the Middle East suggest.

Long before beach bags and bottles of SPF, early humans may have reached for something far more basic to protect themselves from the sun: dirt. That's according to experts who have a new theory ...