Carl Persson/Blekinge MuseumThe remains of a man and his dog were uncovered in a graveyard dating back to the Stone Age in modern-day Sweden. They say a dog is a man’s best friend. This saying ...

A 7,500-year-old antler unearthed in Sweden had characteristic breakage patterns that suggest it was the handle for a battle ax. ... This Stone Age man's jawless skull was found on a spike.

Stone Age man used that knowledge to turn plant fibers into cord and rope. Cord-making was a vital survival skill for hunter-gatherers in every culture, said Bob Garritson, an expert on ...

Ancient proteins and DNA may peg a 146,000-year-old Chinese skull as the most complete fossil to date from Denisovans, a puzzling line of Asian hominids.

Three years ago, researchers announced that plague genomes had been recovered from the Stone Age skull of a man who lived in what is now Latvia. ... The 6,500-year-old weapons, ...