Learn more about the colorful and shiny stones that were turned into tools as many as 40,000 years ago, which were sometimes ...

A new study has shown that as early as the Stone Age, people in Africa traveled long distances to procure colorful stone, the ...

International research team from the University of Tübingen and the Senckenberg Nature Research Society finds early humans in ...

Mysterious rock depicted in 15th-century painting is most likely a Stone Age tool Why medieval painter Jean Fouquet chose to depict Acheulean hand ax remains a mystery.

A close look at 7,000-year-old grinding stones left in ancient firepits shows wandering herders in northern Saudi Arabia carried heavy tools for working on bones, plants and rocks.

Namibia is particularly rich in hunter-gatherer rock art from the late Stone Age, ... Membership Monthly $4.99 Membership Yearly $49.00 Membership+Print Monthly $9.99 Membership+Print Yearly $99.

Humans Before the Stone Age: Were the first tools made from plants not rocks? Our ancestors probably used a wide range of plant-based tools that have since been lost to history.

The tracking experts were able to define the species, sex, age group, and even the exact leg of the animal or human print in more than 90 percent of the 513 engravings they examined.

Researchers scrutinized images of previous finds from the archaeological site of Pedra Furada in the Brazilian state of Piauí, where a cache of stone tools dated to between 32,000 and 50,000 ...

Ancient wooden tools found at a site in Gantangqing in southwestern China are approximately 300,000 years old, new dating has ...