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.

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.

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 ...

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.

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).

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.

Romancing the Stone Age 2 minute read Lev Grossman January 25, 2002 12:00 AM EST ...

This wasn’t a one-time usage situation, either—the for thousands of years, spanning the final Middle Stone Age and the Late Stone Age, the cavern was mined for a clay-based pigmentation ...

A possible later stone age painting of a dicynodont (Synapsida) from the South African Karoo. The Horned Serpent panel. A, general view of the Horned Serpent panel photographed in 2024 by the author.

A version of this article appears in print on , Section A, Page 4 of the New York edition with the headline: Virulent Plague Might Have Obliterated Stone-Age Scandinavia.

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 ...