A new study uncovers how early humans in Greece used stone tools for butchery, offering rare insight into life 430,000 years ...

An international research team has published a new study on one of the oldest known sites for the processing of animal meat by humans in the southern Balkans. At Marathousa 1, an archaeological site ...

A stunning discovery at Blombos Cave reveals early humans used ochre as a sophisticated tool, challenging our understanding ...

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

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

Humans and our ancestors have been creating tools, art, and everyday objects for millions of years, and each unexpected ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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

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

Over 100 small stone objects from Neolithic period are the earliest instance of 'spindle whorls,' used to spin fibers into yarn, predating previously known textile tools by 4,000 years ...