The flute unearthed from an important Neolithic settlement in Iran shows how early humans progressed from their primitive ...

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 ...

In 2020, archaeologists in Ireland first announced a startling find at Newgrange, a giant Neolithic burial chamber 30 miles ...

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

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.

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

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.

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 ...

Researchers from Tokyo Metropolitan University crafted replica Stone Age tools and used them for a range of tasks to see how different activities create traces on the edge. They found that a ...

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.

Hidden Stone Age road still preserved is discovered underwater after 7,000 years Deposits of sea mud had been hiding a road that had connected the sunken, prehistoric settlement of Hvar with the ...