Archaeologists have long been intrigued by stone spheroids, peculiar artifacts scattered across archaeological sites ...

But Stone Age families likely had a relatively manageable amount of children. On average, hunter-gatherer women gave birth to ...

Some areas of modern Europe were pretty populated during the Stone Age. Archeological evidence shows that settlements ... archeologists have not found many human remains. Without these skeletal ...

Many are familiar with the eruption of Vesuvius in 79 AD that destroyed Pompeii. But centuries earlier, Vesuvius also sent ...

As she worked at her computer, the results revealed the sample she was examining contained human DNA. There was nothing so unusual about that in itself: at the time, the ancient DNA (aDNA ...

In the Orkney Islands, archaeologists close the chapter on a legendary excavation, capping two decades of remarkable ...

About 8,500 years ago, a 5'6" man with size 11 feet walked along the Severn Estuary at 2.6 miles per hour carrying a heavy load on his right shoulder. Archaeologists deduced all this from a series of ...

Using special dredges, scientists have just brought to the surface a hundred flint artefacts made by Stone Age humans between 15,000 and 8000 years ago. The artefacts - a number of small flint ...

The Stone Age societies at Gesher Benot Ya’akov knew their environment better than modern humans and had different technologies and practices for hunting and for the collection and processing of ...

Challenging brainteasers can help enhance thinking and IQ. A picture puzzle depicts Stone Age humans, one of whom is a time traveler. Observers need to identify this individual within five seconds ...

Using special dredges, scientists have just brought to the surface 100 flint artefacts made by Stone Age humans between 15,000 and 8,000 years ago. The artefacts – a number of small flint ...