Between 14,000 and 20,000 years ago, hunter-gatherers living in Western Europe made tools from the bones of whales that had ...

In the 1990s, archaeologists working near the German town of Schöningen made a remarkable find: a set of well-preserved wooden spears crafted from spruce and pine, along with stone tools and the ...

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.

The Quina technology discovered ... During the Middle Paleolithic—a period spanning about 40,000 to 300,000 years ago, also called the Middle Stone Age—groups such as modern humans ...

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During that period, an average of 50 square miles of land were lost every year – sometimes much more. As sea levels rose, the Stone Age population, who lived mainly by the coast and thus at ...

“This discovery marks the earliest known evidence of this fast-spinning technology in the ... associated with the Natufian period, a time in the late Stone Age when humans had settled in ...

Innovation continued into the Mesolithic, which was somewhat of an in-between period. It started at different points ... archaeology expanded into a budding field of science as relics of the Stone Age ...

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 ...

This snapshot of the Mesolithic period, just before Europeans started ... which is known to have been used as an adhesive substance in stone tool technology from the Middle Palaeolithic onward.