Archaeologists in central Israel are excavating one of the world's oldest known burial sites, dating back 100,000 years. It ...

Misconception: Stone Age food was unrecognizable. It turns out that prehistoric meals might not have been all that different from your last takeout order. In 1991, a 5300-year-old mummy was ...

For her, the notion that our Stone Age forebears were artisans serves to humanize them. “Working wood is slow, even if you’re good at it,” she said.

However, they were the last ones.” The post 12,000-year-old Stone Age site in Israel reveals first evidence of wheel technology appeared first on The Times of Israel.

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”).

Learn more about what life was like for Paleolithic peoples, especially children and adolescences of thousands of years ago.

The researchers believe that Neanderthals, an extinct species of human known to have lived in that area as far back as ...

Based on some climate modeling, however, this tidal flat was above sea level roughly 11,000 years ago. For the last 10,000 years, the sites of the stone circles have been covered by water, meaning ...

His curiosity paid off. Archaeologists have discovered that the stone is part of a larger Bronze Age ceremonial complex that dates back to around 1700 B.C.E.

The press release suggests these hand axes could be 1.5 million years old. Iraq history in dried ancient lake Researchers have been exploring Iraq's Western Desert to decode its geomorphological ...

Not that you will catch Auel pining for the old days. “I’d love to go visit there,” she admits, “but I’d want to come back. Thank you, I prefer a nice hot shower.” ...