A new study has shown that as early as the Stone Age, people in Africa traveled long distances to procure colorful stone, the raw material for the manufacture of tools. Researchers investigated worked ...

Human bones discovered in a house that burned down 5,700 years ago are providing archaeologists "CSI"-style clues about the deaths of seven people in prehistoric Ukraine. Burnt and battered human ...

As long as 220,000 years ago—far earlier than previously thought—people quarried rocks for their tools in places they specifically sought out. An international research team led by the University of ...

Stone Age people 40,000 years ago used a simple form of writing comparable in complexity to the earliest stages of the world’s first writing system, cuneiform, according to a study of mysterious signs ...

Stone Age people in northern Scotland buried related males — but not females — together in the same tomb, a new DNA study reveals, creating "webs of descent" across several Neolithic archaeological ...

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 hemisphere, ice sheets up to 8 kilometres tall covered much of Europe, Asia and ...