The Stone Age was a prehistoric period that lasted more than 3 million ... Kristina Killgrove is a staff writer at Live Science with a focus on archaeology and paleoanthropology news.

Stone Age humans used a form of "prehistoric sunscreen" more than 40,000 years ago that may have helped them survive whilst Neanderthals died out, according to a new study.

The insights gleaned from their examination of stone ... this critical period in human history. Published in Nature Communications, the researchers' insights into stone tool technology suggest ...

Pandora Dewan is a Senior Science Reporter at Newsweek ... majority of man-made tools during the middle Stone Age, also known as the Mesolithic period. "Flint is shaped into tools by hammers ...

During the Middle Paleolithic—a period spanning about 40,000 to 300,000 years ago, also called the Middle Stone Age—groups such ... of Ferrara in Italy, tells Science News’ Bruce Bower.

A huge stash of reddish minerals from a cave in Ethiopia shows how Stone Age people gradually adapted their technologies and practices over a 4500-year period. “It’s one of the rare sites ...

When archaeologists recently carried out an excavation at Vinjeøra in southern Trøndelag County, they made a surprising discovery that they had only dreamed of finding. Archaeologist and Project ...

Aristos is a Newsweek science and health reporter with the ... in southern Sweden that dates back to the Neolithic period, or New Stone Age. The unusual site, located in the municipality of ...

the pace of innovation in stone technology began to accelerate very slightly, a period known as the Middle Stone Age. By the beginning of this time, handaxes were made with exquisite craftsmanship.

Anthropologists have pieced together the most complete Stone Age family tree so far ... 6,300 and 6,700 years ago during the Neolithic period, when humans began to settle into localized ...

These floors have gone out of fashion in some parts of the world, but in Stone Age Europe they were a cutting-edge technology, according to a study published in the journal Radiocarbon.

Sediment samples from the basin just to the south of the wall helps them narrow down the possible time period when the wall was built. It is the first known discovery of a Stone Age hunting ...