A new analysis of a carved mammoth tusk first discovered four decades ago reveals it may be the world's oldest boomerang.

Civilizations from Stone Age Scotland to the eighth-century Maya to 13th-century African empires have used dry stone walling ...

The Earth of the last Ice Age (about 26,000 to 19,000 years ago) was very different from today's world. In the northern ...

In a Mexican village, a young artisan is turning heads by blending Mexico's centuries-old cantera stonework tradition with cutting-edge tech.

Archaeologists have long puzzled over stone spheroids—round limestone objects found at ancient sites across the globe. These ...

On a small rise less than 20 miles south of Tbilisi, Georgia, a clutch of round, mud-brick houses rises from a green, fertile river valley. The mound is called Gadachrili Gora, and the Stone Age ...

Travel back 20,000 years into the last Ice Age, to a time when the upper reaches of the Blue Mountains were treeless and the ...

Bent over by age and arthritis, the Phillips, Wisconsin, resident continued to build life-size and larger-than-life concrete ...

The question is not only how people survived there, but why, with potentially important answers for understanding ancient ...

Ancient pieces of priceless art, some dating back tens of thousands of years, have gone on display in a Keighley museum.

Archaeologists from the Australian Museum, the University of Sydney and the Australian National University in collaboration with First Nations community members have unearthed 693 stone artefacts ...

The fingerprint, discovered on a painted pebble in a Spanish cave, represents the oldest known evidence of Neanderthal ...