Imagine a world free of smartphones, electricity, and even the concept of a wheel. That was the reality for our distant ancestors during the Stone Age. While their lives might seem unrefined when ...

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The ungainly weapons were found buried in a hillside in the Medway Valley, where some 800 Stone Age artefacts were also uncovered. Letty Ingrey, senior archaeologist at the UCL Institute of ...

In 1963, researchers unearthed two Stone Age skeletons that were buried in an embraced position in a cave in Italy. Now, DNA testing has revealed that one of them had a rare genetic condition.

Around 2.5 million years ago, our planet looked very different to how it does now. Not only did woolly mammoths traverse the terrain alongside Stone Age people, our planet was undergoing a series of ...

Known as "Il Principe," a boy unearthed in northern Italy's Arene Candide Cave in 1942 was killed by a bear nearly 28,000 ...

A new study has shown that as early as the Stone Age, people in Africa traveled long distances to procure colorful stone, the raw material for the manufacture of tools. Subscribe to our newsletter for ...

Researchers have found cannibalized human remains from at least 11 people in El Mirador cave in northern Spain, suggesting it was the site of a violent Neolithic clash 5,600 years ago. When you ...

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WASHINGTON — Old Stone Age humans were more picky about the rocks they used for making tools than previously known, according to research published Friday. Not only did these early people make tools; ...