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.

His remains, which date to the very end of the Stone Age, were found on... The Norwegian University of Science and Technology's museum ... individuals from the same period who had a similar ...

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 ...

Based on the shape of the arrowheads and shore-level dating, the burial can be estimated to have taken place in the Mesolithic period of the Stone Age, roughly 6,000 years before the Common Era.

He's worked on bringing so many ancient faces back to life that he even has a favorite period to work on: "the Stone Age," he says ... As 3D modeling technology advances, archaeologists are ...

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 ...

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 ...

according to a recent paper published in the Journal of Archaeological Science. If these kinds of traces were indeed found on genuine Stone Age tools, it would be evidence that humans had been ...

The basic chronology — Stone Age to Bronze Age to Iron Age — now ... have traditionally characterized the Lower Paleolithic period, which lasted from about 2.7 million years ago to 200,000 ...