To reach Malta, these hunter-gatherers seemingly crossed at least 100 kilometers of open ocean, the team says. The findings add to an emerging picture of systematic seafaring in the Stone Age.

"Słupcio" — or "little guy from Słupsk" in Polish — is the name given to the amber bear in 2013, when a Polish kindergartner ...

Seafaring hunter-gatherers were accessing remote ... the research team found the traces of humans in the form of their stone tools, hearths, and cooked food waste. Small, remote islands were ...

An archaeological site in Germany suggests communal hunting and complex thinking emerged earlier in human evolution than once thought.

A 7,500-year-old antler unearthed in Sweden had characteristic breakage patterns that suggest it was the handle for a battle ...

These newly discovered stone tools were embedded in a cave overlooking ... At this time, Earth was nearing the end of the last major ice age. “The Pleistocene was actually a very, very different ...

Traces of ancient north African ancestry, including influences from ancient Iberomaurusians (Later Stone Age hunter-gatherers), are present across all Fulani populations. This shows populations ...