Stone Age humans used a form of "prehistoric sunscreen" more than 40,000 years ago that may have helped them survive whilst ...

New archaeological finds in Malta add to an emerging theory that early Stone Age humans cruised the open seas.

It was made around 12,000 years ago. The Stone Age artist used a sharp stone to scratch the outline of a horse onto a piece of bone. Evidence from elsewhere in Europe shows that people living in ...

This artifact was used for scraping fur from animal hides. For European and American Stone Age peoples, end scrapers served as heavy- duty scraping tools that could have been used on animal hides ...

Archaeologists previously assumed that East Asia did not see considerable tool development during the Middle Paleolithic, but new findings might change that widely held idea ...

Not until the late 19th century did humans learn of the extraordinary art produced by their Ice Age ancestors ... applied to outlines of figures first engraved into the stone and at others ...

The first genomic study of ancient people from the eastern Maghreb region — present-day Tunisia and northeastern Algeria — shows that Stone Age populations who lived there more than 8,000 ...

An amateur archaeologist recently encouraged researchers to take another look at the Farley Moor standing stone, which was once part of a bigger ceremonial site ...

It was made around 12,000 years ago. The Stone Age artist used a sharp stone to scratch the outline of a horse onto a piece of bone. Evidence from elsewhere in Europe shows that people living in ...