It might look like a prehistoric gummy bear, but this palm-sized figurine is an exceptional piece of art and a mysterious outlier in both time and place. The figurine was found in December 2022 near ...

The rock engravings created by Stone Age hunter-gatherers depict animal tracks and human footprints.

Stone Age people were by no means dull cave dwellers. Breathtaking finds in the caves of the Danube valley in southern Germany show what they were capable of.

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

Echoes Near Stone Age Rock Art Suggest Rituals Were Common Practice Learn why the sound of echoes near rock art sites in Finland gives insight to how neolithic people interacted with their artwork.

Amputation might explain some Stone Age hand stencils. “In Palaeolithic rock art, the most common hidden finger is only the pinkie,” says Collado Giraldo.

Stone age artists carved detailed human and animal tracks in rock art in Namibia Indigenous trackers could identify the prints’ species, sex and age for 90% of analyzed engravings Peer-Reviewed ...

People in the Arabian desert once occupied natural underground tunnels thousands of years ago that were made of cooled lava, archaeologists have discovered.

A stone age child buried with bird feathers, plant fibers and fur Date: November 2, 2022 Source: University of Helsinki Summary: Archaeological researchers have identified human remains as a child ...

There can be little doubt of public interest in human origins and Stone-and-Bone age art—the art equivalent of dinosaurs at the Natural History Museum.

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.

With the age-old Japanese reverence for the texture and shape of stone, he felt it in his hand and found an overwhelming sense of tranquility, an “odd composure” at a time when squadron after ...