In a new study, researchers reenacted how people in Taiwan might have reached the Ryukyu Islands tens of thousands of years ...

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 ...

Similarities in fabrication techniques suggest that Paleolithic people passed on their methods - and may have shared them ...

A new analysis of a carved mammoth tusk first discovered four decades ago reveals it may be the world's oldest boomerang.

When Japanese scientists wanted to learn more about how ground stone tools dating back to the Early Upper Paleolithic might have been used, they decided to build their own replicas of adzes, axes ...

Ancient wooden tools found at a site in Gantangqing in southwestern China are approximately 300,000 years old, new dating has ...

The Stone Age timeline encompasses a huge chunk of prehistory—and life wasn’t ... the Paleolithic Period, or the Old Stone Age; Mesolithic Period, or Mid Stone Age ... a type of waterproof ...

The Stone Age objects, which are made of flint, could potentially be about 10,000-14,000 years old, according to archaeologists.

Lines, dots and other symbols painted in caves during the last Ice Age may be the earliest example of proto writing – symbols that communicate a small amount of information like an emoji.