Archaeologists have known that early humans started using stone tools called scrapers to process hides and scrape the flesh off bones about 1.5 million years ago. But these tools were mostly used ...

An amateur archaeologist’s collection of rare Stone Age relics found while beachcombing in Kent is expected to sell for tens ...

A 5,500-year-old flint blade production workshop was uncovered near Kiryat Gat, Israel in a salvage excavation conducted by ...

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

Using special dredges, scientists have just brought to the surface 100 flint artefacts made by Stone Age humans between 15,000 and 8,000 years ago.

Archaeologists uncovered a Bronze Age blade workshop in southern Israel, revealing advanced flint tools and organized ...

Advanced flint industry dating back approximately 5,500 years was uncovered, providing first-ever evidence of blade production in southern Israel.

For her, the notion that our Stone Age forebears were artisans serves to humanize them. “Working wood is slow, even if you’re good at it,” she said.

The drowning of so much Stone Age land by post-Ice Age sea-level rise was a pivotal event in British prehistory – and Britain’s status as an island dates from that time. Scientists involved in ...