The fossilised bones of our ancestors remain silent. So, how can we possibly imagine what our earliest languages sounded like ...

Ancient DNA from Ajvide graves shows Stone Age burials often grouped extended relatives, highlighting the importance of wider ...

Ancient European hunter-gatherers were far more advanced in their cooking methods than previously thought, a new study has ...

Further south, in the Don River basin, the menu changed. There, the “chefs” were obsessed with seeds. The foodcrusts were packed with wild grasses and wild legumes, like clover, all cooked together ...

A stone being used in the foundation of an old barn in the Czech Republic turned out to be a Bronze Age spearhead mold.

I am an archaeologist with a special interest in people who lived in Africa during the Middle Stone Age. This was a time when Homo sapiens was evolving biologically, behaviourally and cognitively. My ...

The pillar is topped with a simple carving of a human face. Turkish Ministry of Culture and Tourism At one of the world’s oldest Stone Age archaeological sites—Karahantepe in southeast ...

Stone Age families enjoyed a "surprisingly complex" range of cuisine, researchers have found. The study, led by a University of York researcher, revealed an "unprecedented" variety of plants in human ...

A study of 125 skeletons from two Neolithic cemeteries in Hungary has revealed that men and women had clear gender roles — ...

Burned crusts on ancient pottery reveal that Stone Age people cooked fish together with berries, seeds, and other plants.