Walking through a river valley in central Asia, a team of archaeologists scanned the craggy landscape for anything that ...

Researchers has uncovered never before seen details in a set of prehistoric stone objects that feature a variety of artworks.

The history of the Korean nation began in Manchuria and the Korean Peninsula when people started settling there 700,000 years ...

The Ice Age camp site of Gönnersdorf on the banks of the Rhine has revealed a groundbreaking discovery that sheds new light ...

BURKITT'S “Old Stone Age”, a textbook for students ... and would restrict the nomenclature and classification of palaeolithic industries now in use to western Europe. The Old Stone Age ...

Nearly 16,000-year-old portrayals of fish surrounded by nets had evaded detection until a new technique took magnification to a new level.

We tend to think of prehistoric life as hard. Brutal, even. Devoid of pleasure, outside of the odd mammoth steak or math class. But that dour picture tends to be missing something big – or rather, ...

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Our ancestors probably used a wide range of plant-based tools that have since been lost to history. Now we're finally getting a glimpse of this Botanic Age ...