60,000-year-old poison arrows from South Africa are the oldest poison weapons ever discovered

Five quartz arrowheads found in a South African cave were laced with a slow-acting tumbleweed poison that would have tired ...
Archaeology

Mesolithic Baskets

There are very few places on Earth where people can’t find twigs, reeds, blades of grass, or other resources to make a basket—and people always need a way to carry their belongings or food. The ...
Smithsonian Magazine

Archaeologists Discover Mysterious 7,000-Year-Old Stone Wall Beneath the Waves Off the Coast of France

The sturdy, well-built structure was likely constructed on dry land at a time when sea levels were much lower than they are ...
Deccan Chronicle

Fossil Wood Unearthed in Godavari Basin

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

Scientists Reconstruct the Face of Avgi, the 9,000 Year-Old Greek Teen

A reconstruction of the face of Avgi, a teenager who lived in Mesolithic Greece, around 7,000 BC, stuns viewers.
Phys.org

Pahon Cave provides a look into 5,000 years of surprisingly stable Stone Age tool use

The Pahon Cave in Gabon offers archaeologists a well-preserved look into the Late Stone Age time period in central Africa, thanks to the stratified layers of guano-based sediment. This is in contrast ...
Rolling Stone

Here’s How Spotify Wrapped Calculated Your Listening Age — And Here’s Rolling Stone’s

“Age is just a number. So don’t take this personally,” the Spotify slide warns, before revealing each user’s calculated listening age. How exactly did Spotify land on that number, though? Marc Hazan, ...
Los Angeles Daily News

Queens of the Stone Age reinvent themselves brilliantly at the Dolby Theatre

Late in Queens of the Stone Age‘s strange and wonderful night in Hollywood on Tuesday, singer Josh Homme paused to state the obvious. “I know it’s all a bit strange and unusual, and a little ...
THE WEEK

Builders return to the stone age

Stone is “making a comeback” in the building industry after years of being “forgotten”, said the BBC. With clear benefits to the environment, such as a lower carbon footprint than other traditional ...
New York Post

I saw Queens of the Stone Age live. They defied all expectations

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Stereogum

Watch Queens Of The Stone Age’s Cinematic Tonight Show Performance

On Thursday night, Queens Of The Stone Age, one of the great running rock bands, did musical-guest duty on Jimmy Fallon's Tonight Show, but they didn't exactly have new music to sell. Queens Of The ...
The Oakland Press

Queens of the Stone Age cabarets at the Fox Theatre

A bit over an hour into Queens of the Stone Age’s concert Friday night, Oct. 3, at Detroit’s Fox Theatre, frontman Josh Homme provided some context for the unusual exposition that was taking place on ...