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 ...

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

Activity 2: Neolithic Stone Age quiz; Life in the Neolithic period. Around 6,000 years ago, instead of spending all their time hunting and gathering, people in Britain started living in a new way.

In the largest study of its kind, researchers have used DNA from a 6,700-year-old cemetery in France to reconstruct the lives of everyday Neolithic people.

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

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 ...

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 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.