While the Paleolithic period involved a nomadic lifestyle and the invention of stone tools, the Neolithic period was ushered ...

Tools from South Africa’s Robberg caves match styles found in Namibia and Lesotho, suggesting early humans shared methods and ...

Early human communication networks revealed thanks to ancient stone tools and blades located in a South African cave.

An “extremely rare” 16,000-year-old canine skeleton from southern France offers evidence that Stone Age humans cared for their pets – although the animal was also probably killed by humans.

but experts agree that the answers could someday crystallize from the ever-emerging technological evidence Stone Age humans left behind. In this interactive matching game, consider what roles ten ...

at the very start of the Stone Age. Studying this breakthrough technology, researchers have gained new insights into this Lower Paleolithic phase of human evolution. Long before widespread ...

The Mesolithic period is known as the middle stone age. Stone Age people cut up their food with sharpened stones and cooked it on a fire. After a good day’s hunting people could feast on meat.

But whose hands shaped them? The answer could shake up what’s known about human origins during this period of the Stone Age, according to new research. Archaeologists excavating the Longtan site ...