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 often ...

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, and ...

The exceptional excavation of a Stone Age burial site was carried out in Majoonsuo, situated in the municipality of Outokumpu in Eastern Finland. The excavation produced microscopically small ...

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In a discovery reshaping the understanding of prehistoric cultures in Eurasia, archaeologists found an 8,400-year-old stone human figurine in Damjili Cave, located in the limestone hills of western ...

Considering Finland's highly acidic soil, archaeologists were surprised to find animal fur and feathers buried alongside a child from the Stone Age. When you purchase through links on our site, we may ...

The presence of nearby megalithic remains points to cultural continuity from the Stone Age through the Mesolithic to the ...

Prehistoric people used a culinary method, similar to slow cooking today, to carefully extract animal teeth to use in decorative crafts, such as pendant-making, archaeologists have shown. It has long ...