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

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 ...

The Stone Age was a prehistoric period that lasted more than 3 million years, from the point when human ancestors began using stone tools until the time we invented metalworking.. Archaeologists ...

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

12,000-year-old Stone Age site in Israel reveals first evidence of wheel technology. ... The Natufians at Nahal-Ein Gev were still part of the Stone Age, Yashuv said, and were “a Paleolithic ...

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

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”).

These artifacts include ancient hand axes from the Early or Old Paleolithic, also known as the Old Stone Age. Advertisement The press release suggests these hand axes could be 1.5 million years old.

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 ...