Researchers working with Indigenous experts have uncovered fascinating information about a set of ancient rock engravings in southwestern Africa. The rock art was created by hunter-gatherers in what ...

Buried during the Stone Age, this woman once roamed the forests of northern Sweden. Now archaeologists have reconstructed her ...

During the Later Stone Age in what is now Namibia, rock artists imbued so much detail into their engravings of human and animal prints that current-day Indigenous trackers could identify which animals ...

[ Related: Butchered skulls point to Europe’s Ice Age cannibals. ] The study centers on the Zvejnieki cemetery site in northern Latvia. Dating back to about 7500 to 2500 BCE, more than 2,000 animal ...

At 21 meters of depth, in the turbid waters of the Baltic Sea, a secret from the Stone Age was hidden: the Blinkerwall, an ...

Expert trackers have been able to identify the species depicted in around 400 animal footprints carved on rocks in Namibia during the Stone Age. In most cases, they were also able to identify the ...

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Stone “Clovis points” used by prehistoric hunters to kill animals are also remarkably efficient at cutting meat off a large animal carcass – at least according to a modern bison butchering experiment.

Unlike many of their mostly meat-eating peers, a group of late Stone Age hunter-gatherers living in what is now northeastern Morocco had a largely plant-based diet. But despite dining for millennia on ...

More than 80 Stone Age tools have been unearthed at a farm in Dartmoor in the U.K. Experts believe these tools may be 8,000 years old, made by our hunter-gatherer ancestors. The site, located near the ...

Archaeologist Laura Dietrich studies a replica Stone Age axe in Germany. While not from the Latvian site, such replicas reveal how ancient tools were used. Some 6,000 years ago in the northern reaches ...