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 ...

Among these 81 artifacts dating back to the Neolithic period and to be exhibited for the first time in Urfa are sculptures made of limestone, with paint residues on the surface, found in the "D ...

DNA reveals burials inside one of Europe’s largest Neolithic monuments, showing Spain’s Menga dolmen stayed sacred for ...

SAYBURC, TURKEY—Over the past two decades, archaeological work in southeastern Turkey’s Taş Tepeler, or Stone Mounds, region has changed the way that archaeologists think about early human history, ...

Archaeology has a new, unlikely interface: conversation. Instead of peering at potsherds in glass cases, players can now walk ...

Archaeologists have discovered the remains of three women in a Neolithic tomb in France, with the positioning of two of the bodies suggesting they may have been ritualistically murdered by asphyxia or ...

Researchers have found cannibalized human remains from at least 11 people in El Mirador cave in northern Spain, suggesting it was the site of a violent Neolithic clash 5,600 years ago. When you ...

The wealth of grave goods suggests the person buried there was a leader of high status — possibly a Stone Age chieftain. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...