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

Learn more about the colorful and shiny stones that were turned into tools as many as 40,000 years ago, which were sometimes ...

When piecing together the cultural practices of ancient humans, traditional archaeologists rely on clues from artifacts such ...

The Earth of the last Ice Age (about 26,000 to 19,000 years ago) was very different from today’s world. In the northern ...

Recent discoveries reveal surprising similarities between Stone Age people and us. They crafted musical instruments, built ...

Photo: Gregor Bader The Mgwayiza Valley in Eswatini A new study has shown that as early as the Stone Age, people in Africa ...

International research team from the University of Tübingen and the Senckenberg Nature Research Society finds early humans in ...

Stone Age people used slow-cooking techniques to extract animal teeth for jewelry, revealing a careful approach to crafting and cooking.

The facial reconstruction, part of the university’s Regional Outlook on Ancient Migration (ROAM) project, reveals that the ...

In prehistoric communities across what is now northeastern Europe, decorative ornaments with animal teeth were a regular cultural practice. These decorative ornaments that have been dug up in ...

The Stone Age timeline encompasses a huge chunk of prehistory—and life wasn’t only about hunting and gathering.

Hundreds of stone artifacts discovered on a Danish island may have been offered to the gods to ward off a climate crisis.