The Stone Age timeline encompasses a huge chunk of prehistory—and life wasn’t only about ... the Paleolithic Period, or the Old Stone Age; Mesolithic Period, or Mid Stone Age; and ...

Researchers have determined that a collection of 12,000-year-old tiny stone objects found at a Stone Age site in the Jordan Valley were likely used to spin fibers into yarn, a discovery that pushes ...

The 300,000 year-old tools show that hominins in East Asia made planned foraging trips to lakeshores and designed instruments ...

Stone Age humans living by a lake in what’s now Germany systematically processed animal carcasses for fatty nutrients — essentially running what scientists describe as a “fat factory” to boil bones on ...

The basic chronology — Stone Age to Bronze Age to Iron Age — now underpins the archaeology of most of the Old World (and cartoons like “The Flintstones” and “The Croods”).

See the stunning reconstruction of a Stone Age woman who lived 10,500 years ago in Belgium; ... (3.5 centimeters) tall, is one of many Venus figures dating to the Upper Paleolithic, or Old Stone Age.

4,500-year-old flint blade discovered at construction site in Kernmünsterland, Germany, highlighting rare Stone Age artifacts in an unusual archaeological find.

A few other Upper Paleolithic sites — which, in general, date to between around 40,000 and 12,000 years ago — also contain remnants of textiles, baskets and rope (SN: 5/6/95; SN: 9/10/09).

Neanderthals were even better craftsmen than thought, a new analysis of 300,000-year-old wooden tools has revealed. By Franz Lidz In 1836, Christian Jürgensen Thomsen, a Danish antiquarian ...

4,500-year-old flint blade discovered at construction site in Kernmünsterland, Germany, highlighting rare Stone Age artifacts in an unusual archaeological find.