New evidence of cremation 9,500 years ago in south-central Africa challenges long-held notions about how hunter-gatherers ...

This documentary examines how Stone Age weapons inflicted extreme physical damage at close range. Archaeological evidence ...

The excavation of an ancient burial in northern Latvia dating back over 5,000 years challenges long-held assumptions about the roles of women and children in Stone Age societies. Analysis of remains ...

Archaeology has a new, unlikely interface: conversation. Instead of peering at potsherds in glass cases, players can now walk ...

When Japanese scientists wanted to learn more about how ground stone tools dating back to the Early Upper Paleolithic might have been used, they decided to build their own replicas of adzes, axes, and ...

Archaeologists studying the vast Zvejnieki cemetery in Latvia have uncovered surprising truths about Stone Age life. Stone tools, long thought to symbolize male hunters, were actually buried just as ...

According to a study by the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, the University of Cardiff and the Natural History Museum in London, technological innovation during the Stone Age occurred in fits and ...

Scientists are combining anthropology with cutting-edge AI to create an educational video game about life in Stone Age Europe.

The discovery of submerged stone circles and Stone Age tools on the Isle of Skye reveals that humans occupied what is now northern Scotland about 11,000 years ago. The finding indicates that these ...

The 29,000-year-old bones of a child discovered in Thailand are the oldest human remains ever found in the country, archaeologists have announced. The child — nicknamed "Pangpond," after a Thai ...

Chennai: A second-year MA Archaeology student from the University of Madras has found stone-age tools made from quartz in ...