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 ...

Misconception: Stone Age women didn’t get involved in the action. The Venus of Willendorf, a 11-centimeter-tall limestone figurine of a woman dating to 29,500 years ago.

A rare Stone Age figurine discovered near the Baltic Sea has been confirmed as one of the most significant Neolithic finds in ...

The “sacred arc” theory might sound like a plot point straight out of a fantasy novel, but it really describes an ...

The ‘severed hand’ revealing how Stone Age Brits spoke to each other. So far paleolinguists have been able to determine the meaning of just one word - ‘fortune/luck’ ...

Sacrifices of “sun stones” occurred around the same time a volcanic eruption in 2900 BC dimmed the sun throughout Northern Europe, according to a new study.

In the sixth millennium B.C.E. the first farmers reached Western Europe. Who were these people, how did they live, and what was their family structure like?

A survey of British skulls from the early part of the New Stone Age, or Neolithic, shows societies then were more violent than was supposed. Early Neolithic Britons had a one in 20 chance of suffering ...

A 1939 photograph of excavations of the Neolithic burial ... Published Oct. 30, 2024 Updated Oct. 31, 2024. At the end of the Stone Age, some ... Dominik Goldner/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images.