The earliest evidence of deliberate fire-making by humans was discovered at 400,000-year-old site in Barnham, England, ...

The open rings are about 0.75 inches at the widest part of their opening, the researchers said. Justin Garnett and Frederic Sellet A little over a century ago, archaeologists exploring a Paleolithic ...

Archaeologists have discovered a "major" Paleolithic cave art site in Spain that contains more than a hundred individual designs. The collection of prehistoric paintings and engravings is thought to ...

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 ...

The findings from the Ghar-e Boof site reveal that the diet of the local hominins included carnivores and tortoises, among others. Credit: N. Conard The findings from the Ghar-e Boof site reveal that ...

Is the order of the modern alphabet connected to how our shared ancestors counted the phases of the moon and its effect on tides 50,000 years ago? Did the first stirrings of government and bureaucracy ...

Archaeologists have unearthed a set of "truly significant" Stone Age artifacts during an excavation being conducted ahead of planned road improvement in northern England, researchers told Newsweek.

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 ...

Chennai: A second-year MA Archaeology student from the University of Madras has found stone-age tools made from quartz in ...