Neanderthals were even better craftsmen than thought, a new analysis of 300,000-year-old wooden tools has revealed.

In the heart of western Siberia's taiga, a discovery that flips the script on our understanding of Stone Age societies has emerged: an 8,000-year-old fortified ...

A long-held stereotype is that ancient humans were big on meat. A new study of one hunter-gatherer population reveals a ...

Unlike many of their mostly meat-eating peers, a group of late Stone Age hunter-gatherers living in what is now northeastern Morocco had a largely plant-based diet. But despite dining for ...

Twenty similar ritualistic burials have been discovered at sites across Europe. An archaeological discovery in France has revealed the Stone Age remains of two women thought to have been tortured and ...

Archaeologists have discovered the remains of several ritual Stone Age murders across Europe. Although the victims were in different locations and their murders spanned at least 2,000 years ...

A team of archaeologists affiliated with several institutions in France and one in Germany has found that ritualized human sacrifice was common across Europe during the Neolithic. As they report ...

All the Latest Game Footage and Images from Stone Age: Digital Edition Forge your way through the early days of recorded history and build the foundation of human civilization. How bright is ...

Stone “Clovis points” used by prehistoric hunters to kill animals are also remarkably efficient at cutting meat off a large animal carcass – at least according to a modern bison butchering ...

Were Stone Age humans the first geologists? Humans living in what is now South Africa 70,000 years ago possessed a surprisingly sophisticated understanding of the various kinds of rock that made up ...

they’d stumbled upon a stone wall more than half a mile long that dated back to the Stone Age — one of the oldest such megastructures on the planet. In research published in PNAS, Geersen and his ...

An archaeological discovery in France has revealed the Stone Age remains of two women thought to have been tortured and sacrificed in a form of murder associated with the Italian Mafia.