More information: Elizabeth C. Velliky et al, Unveiling the multifunctional use of ochre in the Middle Stone Age: Specialized ochre retouchers from Blombos Cave, Science (2025).

Human bones discovered in a house that burned down 5,700 years ago are providing archaeologists "CSI"-style clues about the deaths of seven people in prehistoric Ukraine.

Misconception: Stone Age medical practices were nonexistent. Over the years, archaeologists have found more than 1500 Neolithic skulls in Europe, Asia, and the Americas that have holes in them.

Then you go to Lascaux. When the Stone Age cave paintings at Altamira and Lascaux were stumbled upon in modern times, archaeologists and anthropologists regarded them as certainly frauds.

In a new study, my colleagues and I analysed stone tools from the cave that date to about 19,000 to 18,000 years ago, and discussed how the techniques used to make them hint at the ways that ...

Researchers and artists have created a striking facial reconstruction of a Stone Age woman who lived roughly 10,500 years ago in what is now Belgium. The detailed depiction of the prehistoric ...

Suspected 35,000-Year-Old Stone Age Ritual Site Found Deep Within Cave A cave in Galilee hints at prehistoric ritual gatherings in a cave that holds evidence of Neanderthal and human occupation.

Inside Dig HQ, Nick Card was seated at his desk, his dog Tam, a border collie, chewing a bone (not Neolithic) by his feet. Card, a Scot in his mid-60s with silver hair and beard, is the director ...

In France’s Gard region, Michael Levy's villa embodies a unique harmony of its history, location, space, light, and matter ...

In a new study, my colleagues and I analyzed stone tools from the cave that date to about 19,000 to 18,000 years ago, and discussed how the techniques used to make them hint at the ways that ...