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 ...

A recently published research article examines the microscopic remains of clothing and burial items dating back roughly 7,000 years. The study focused on the Skateholm I and II cemeteries in Scania, ...

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, ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Archaeologists discovered a 6400–6100 B.C. sandstone figurine in Azerbaijan’s Damjili Cave, marking a rare find from the Mesolithic era. Microscopic ...

In a discovery reshaping the understanding of prehistoric cultures in Eurasia, archaeologists found an 8,400-year-old stone human figurine in Damjili Cave, located in the limestone hills of western ...

Prehistoric people used a culinary method, similar to slow cooking today, to carefully extract animal teeth to use in decorative crafts, such as pendant-making, archaeologists have shown. It has long ...

A lost prehistoric world, Doggerland, once connected Britain to Europe, teeming with life before rising seas submerged it. Scientists are now mapping this ancient landscape, revealing preserved ...

Researchers have found cannibalized human remains from at least 11 people in El Mirador cave in northern Spain, suggesting it was the site of a violent Neolithic clash 5,600 years ago. When you ...

A recently published research article examines the microscopic remains of the clothing and burial items dating back roughly 7,000 years. The study focused on the Skateholm I and II cemeteries in ...