Stone Age People Survived a Supervolcano Eruption by Adapting to Dry Periods, Archaeologists Suggest Humans living in northwest Ethiopia around 74,000 years ago switched to eating more fish ...

During that period, an average of 50 square miles of land were lost every year, and sometimes much more, contributing to the vulnerability of the Stone Age population to seasonal flooding, The ...

Is your knowledge of the Stone Age rock-solid? Archaeologists often break up this lengthy time span into three periods — the Paleolithic (3.3 million to 12,000 years ago), the Mesolithic (12,000 ...

The carvings’ subjects and their varnish coating hint that they date to a regional period known as the Chalcolithic (around 4500 to 3500 BC), which preceded the rise of the Bronze Age. A 3D ...

The researchers believe that Neanderthals, an extinct species of human known to have lived in that area as far back as 125,000 years ago, smashed the marrow-rich bones into fragments with stone ...

Later artifacts dating back to Mesolithic and Neolithic time periods were more sophisticated, as people learned how to use polished stone tools to make canoes, bows, and wells and to build houses.

While the Maghreb (a term used to refer to northwest Africa) is known to have played an important role during the Paleolithic period, or Old Stone Age, as well as the later Iron Age and Islamic ...

Archaeologists have uncovered the remains of a "unique" prehistoric ceremonial site in southern Sweden that dates back to the Neolithic period, or New Stone Age.

Thomsen could well have substituted Wood Age for Stone Age, according to Thomas Terberger, ... The objects date from the end of a warm interglacial period 300,000 years ago, ...