His areas of expertise include Stone Age ... period in our evolution (2.6 million years!), experimental archaeology can contribute many pieces to the study of human evolution, behavior, and ...

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 ...

“It's really a period where the ... between climate events and technology. Boomplaas Cave offers a way around this problem. The transition out of the Middle Stone Age began later there, so ...

Railroad construction through a farm on the Danish island of Falster has revealed a 5,000-year-old Neolithic site hiding an advanced technology ... "Stone-Paved Cellars in the Stone Age?

[Related: Details of life in Bronze Age Mycenae could lie at the bottom ... helped people hunt a larger group of animals in a shorter period of time. “Although human constructions have modified ...

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 ...

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 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 ...