Roughly 8,000-year-old remains unearthed from present-day Tunisia held a surprise: European hunter-gatherer ancestry.

Early people not only came out of Africa, but much later, some returned to it by boat across the Mediterranean, possibly from ...

The Arunta: a Study of a Stone Age People. By Sir Baldwin Spencer late F. J. Gillen. In two volumes. Vol. 1. Pp. xxviii + 390 + 87 plates. Vol. 2. Pp. xvi + 391 - 646 + 64 plates. (London ...

The site had an unusually high abundance of fish compared to other Stone Age sites, suggesting that people captured more fish as waterholes shrank during the dry season. “People start to ...

The Mesolithic period is known as the middle stone age. Stone Age people cut up their food with sharpened stones and cooked it on a fire. After a good day’s hunting people could feast on meat.

A new discovery in southeastern Italy has provided a rare glimpse into the spiritual practices of Stone Age communities. Archaeologists have unearthed the fragmented remains of at least 15 ...

Stone Age peoples may also have sliced animal hides ... style of stone spear point and to the culture of the North American people who used such weapons to devastating effect against large game.

The first genomic study of ancient people from the eastern Maghreb region — present-day Tunisia and northeastern Algeria — shows that Stone Age populations who lived there more than 8,000 ...

but experts agree that the answers could someday crystallize from the ever-emerging technological evidence Stone Age humans left behind. In this interactive matching game, consider what roles ten ...

Archaeologists from the Universities of Manchester and Cardiff have discovered the origins of Arthur’s Stone, one of the UK’s most famous Stone Age monuments. Manchester’s Professor Julian Thomas, who ...