The headdress, discovered at the Eilsleben settlement, suggests that Neolithic people traded with Mesolithic hunter-gatherers.

Sixty thousand years ago, humans in southern Africa were already mastering nature’s chemistry. Scientists have discovered ...

An ancient quarry site in Newton County offers evidence that humans removed chert for stone tools, spear points and arrow ...

Hiker’s Chance Discovery Uncovers a 1,500-Year-Old Artifact Linked to Tragedy ...

Central Germany is among the regions where, as early as the mid-6th millennium BC, farmers displaced the Mesolithic hunter–gatherers from the fertile loess soils. Soon after this migration, however, ...

This documentary traces the full timeline of the Stone Age, beginning with the earliest stone tools and ending with the foundations of settled life. It shows how early humans adapted to harsh climates ...

Finds at Alaska’s Holzman site show how Ice Age hunters, mammoths, and tools shaped the earliest journey into North America.

OUR prehistoric human ancestors relied on deliberately modified and sharpened stone tools as early as 3.3 million years ago. The selection of rock type depended on how easily the material could be ...

Thousands of years before the invention of compasses or sails, prehistoric peoples crossed oceans to reach remote lands like ...

Archaeologists recently identified the world's oldest-known poisoned arrowheads, a discovery that dates back around 60,000 years. The poison was found on quartz arrowheads from Umhlatuzana Rock ...

The Earth of the last Ice Age (about 26,000 to 19,000 years ago) was very different from today’s world. As more and more water was transformed into ice, global sea levels dropped as much as 125 metres ...