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 ...

In the inland Alentejo, in southern Portugal, far from the Atlantic coast and the major estuaries, the land has preserved a secret that challenges what we thought we knew about how and where the last ...

Imagine Europe tens of thousands of years ago: dense forests, large herds of elephants, bison and aurochs—and small groups of people armed with fire and spears. A new study shows that these people ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. A reconstruction of the environment that the Margaux woman once inhabited in what is now ...

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 ...

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 ...