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

It was assumed for a long time that Stone Age tombs in Ireland were built for royalty. However, a new DNA analysis of 55 ...

According to the study of the antler, when a Stone Age craftsman originally discovered it, they first ground down and ...

Long before beach bags and bottles of SPF, early humans may have reached for something far more basic to protect themselves from the sun: dirt. That's according to experts who have a new theory ...

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

A new study contradicts the long-held assumption that Ireland’s Neolithic passage tombs were reserved for members of an elite ...

A reanalysis of ancient DNA shows that a major cultural change took place in Ireland after four centuries of farming.

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 ...

Excavations at a cave on the island of Malta have uncovered stone tools, cooking site and animal skeletons from 8,500 years ago — 1,000 years before the first farmers arrived on the island ...

A nearly complete skeleton found in a cave in France belonged to a group known as the Palaeolithic dogs and its skeleton suggests it had a confusing relationship with humans ...

The story of how Earth’s magnetic field once collapsed, solar radiation went wild, and humans adapted with prehistoric ...