New research shows stone tool production in the Central African rainforest remained remarkably consistent for a period of ...

Stone tool production in the African rainforest during the Late Stone Age likely remained stable for roughly 5,000 years and ...

A cave in Galilee hints at prehistoric ritual gatherings in a cave that holds evidence of Neanderthal and human occupation. Reading time 2 minutes A distinctive rock in the deepest part of a northern ...

The gristly event happened over a short period — possibly within a few days — during the final phase of the Neolithic, or New Stone Age, occupation of the cave, when farming and agriculture became ...

Western Europeans crafted hunting weapons out of bones from whales stranded on the Atlantic shoreline between 20,000 and 14,000 years ago, researchers report May 27 in Nature Communications.

Prehistoric hunter-gatherers were likely skilled seafarers who could make long and challenging journeys. Stone tools, animal bones and other artifacts unearthed in Malta indicate that humans first ...

Archaeologists have reconstructed the face of a Stone Age Belgian woman and found that she had blue eyes and a dark complexion, shedding more light on the ancestry of modern Europeans. The prehistoric ...

The last two decades have seen a revolution in scientists' ability to reconstruct the past. This has been made possible ...