New archaeological discoveries from Malta suggest that prehistoric hunter-gatherers were far more capable oflong-distance sea ...

A team of archeologists in South Africa had to climb to new heights to find an important set of tools made by humans about 20 ...

Similarities in fabrication techniques suggest that Paleolithic people passed on their methods - and may have shared them ...

Archaeologists previously assumed that East Asia did not see considerable tool development during the Middle Paleolithic, but ...

The team made the daily climb with all their excavation and photography equipment, weighing up to 50 pounds per person.

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 ...

Archaeologists in Spain have uncovered what could be the oldest known rock carvings made by humans likely over 200,000 years old – a find that could transform our understanding of human presence in ...

The artist behind the engraving was likely part of a wave of Stone Age humans who migrated from northern Africa and into Europe, the scientists suspect. If the carving is as old as archaeologists ...

Archaeologists in China have found stone technology previously thought to have been used by Neanderthals in Europe, ...

This is really exciting." The Stone Age began with the use of stone tools about 3 million years ago (before modern humans existed) and ended about 5,000 years ago in parts of North Africa and ...