In Skara Brae, a settlement on the Orkney Islands in Scotland, homes were made out of stone because there were no trees for wood. They even had stone cupboards and beds. The Stone Age lasted for ...

Burnt and battered human bones from 5,700 years ago hint at a brutal end for a group of Stone Age people who likely died in a house fire in what is now Ukraine, a new study finds. But why two of ...

Around 4,000 years ago, instead of spending all their time hunting and gathering, people in Britain started living in a new way. They began to set up farms. These farms marked the start of a new ...