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 often ...

Skulls from Paleolithic Europe’s Pavlovian people have long been noted for their damaged teeth, with wear patterns evident along their outer surfaces. A new study posits a theory that this damage came ...

Earlier this week, we reported on a Swedish archaeologist who spent the last three years sailing the fjords in a replica boat similar to those the Vikings may have used. Not to be outdone, Japanese ...

Is the order of the modern alphabet connected to how our shared ancestors counted the phases of the moon and its effect on tides 50,000 years ago? Did the first stirrings of government and bureaucracy ...

In a remote cave in the Gard region of southern France, a team of spelunkers made an astonishing discovery—a 16,000-year-old dog skeleton. This rare find not only offers a glimpse into the early ...

A Stone Age skull discovered in a cave in Italy is the oldest evidence of artificial cranial modification ever found in Europe. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

Researchers just found something that could change the way we envision color during the Paleolithic era—and it’s been sitting in a German museum for the past 50 years. While re-examining a Paleolithic ...

Archaeologists estimate that humans first arrived on the Ryukyu Islands off the southwestern coast of Japan sometime between 35,000 and 27,500 years ago. How they did so, however, remains a mystery, ...