The Stone Age was a prehistoric period that lasted more than 3 million years, from the point when human ancestors began using stone tools until the time we invented metalworking. Archaeologists often ...

Despite being rich in later prehistoric and historic archaeology that includes megalithic monuments, Bronze age copper mines and medieval castles, the Mizen Peninsula, south-west Ireland, has revealed ...

.IN attempting to give an account of the development of civilisation from the end of the paleolithic age to the bronze age in Europe and adjacent regions, within the compass of this small volume, Mr.

A two-inch Mesolithic stone figurine from Azerbaijan tells a tale of cultural growth. It’s the first cultural find from the area of the South Caucasus. The sandstone figurine depicts a human, and ...

Analyzing the first archaeogenetic data from the Mesolithic-Neolithic transition in Western Europe, a team of French and German researchers documents levels of admixture between expanding early ...

Human cannibalism has probably existed throughout human history, and the Mesolithic period was no exception. Some of the earliest evidence for prehistoric human cannibalism in Western Europe has been ...

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Vol. 113, No. 37 (September 13, 2016), pp. 10298-10303 (6 pages) Researchers agree that domesticated plants were ...

Tokyo, Japan – Researchers from Tokyo Metropolitan University crafted replica stone age tools and used them for a range of tasks to see how different activities create traces on the edge. They found ...

While playing outside her school in Norway, an 8-year-old girl found an unexpected treasure — not a lost ball or a discarded jump rope, but a flint dagger crafted by Stone Age people 3,700 years ago.