Archaeologists have discovered a Stone Age ‘kill site’ full of mammoth remains where ancient people used to herd the large mammals so they could be killed and butchered. The discovery was made ...

The "good boy" was buried in the middle of a Stone Age settlement. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Archaeologists have ...

New studies suggest that dogs shared a hearth with early Stone Age humans and trotted beside ... an expert on the history of domestic mammals working at the Zoological Society of London.

A carnivore, including many mammals, mostly eat meat or the flesh ... Dr Miki Ben-Dor and colleagues set out to investigate whether stone-age humans were specialised carnivores or were they ...

A version of this story appeared in CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. To get it in your inbox, sign up for free here. In a remote cave on Borneo, Indonesia, archaeologists have made a ...

Rodents appear to have been roasted for food by Stone Age people as early as 5,000 years ... Dr Jerry Herman, curator of mammals at National Museums of Scotland, said evidence from excavations ...

making it a Stone Age weapon of mass destruction. The Clovis point may even have been behind the extinction of large ice age mammals such as the mammoth (see End of the Big Beasts). Clovis points ...

Between 14,000 and 20,000 years ago, hunter-gatherers living in Western Europe made tools from the bones of whales that had been stranded along the Atlantic coast. After dating those implements, ...

What did people in the Stone Age eat before the advent of farming ... as well as ancient horselike and cowlike mammals, suggested that some animals had been butchered and processed for food.

Animal bones, tools and weapons, along with rare evidence of woodworking, were unearthed during excavations at the site near Scarborough Finds discovered at a Stone Age settlement unearthed in ...

Since the ears of social mammals are typically designed to perceive ... “We think that these [Stone Age] people had the vocal-tract features necessary for speaking, and we’ll try to show ...