Stone Age humans used a form of "prehistoric sunscreen" more than 40,000 years ago that may have helped them survive whilst ...

New archaeological discoveries from Malta suggest that prehistoric hunter-gatherers were far more capable oflong-distance sea ...

at the very start of the Stone Age. Studying this breakthrough technology, researchers have gained new insights into this Lower Paleolithic phase of human evolution. Long before widespread ...

An archaeological site in Germany suggests communal hunting and complex thinking emerged earlier in human evolution than once thought.

A team of archeologists in South Africa had to climb to new heights to find an important set of tools made by humans about 20 ...

The artist behind the engraving was likely part of a wave of Stone Age humans who migrated from northern Africa and into Europe, the scientists suspect. If the carving is as old as archaeologists ...

New archaeological finds in Malta add to an emerging theory that early Stone Age humans cruised the open seas.

Archaeologists in China have found stone technology previously thought to have been used by Neanderthals in Europe, ...

The Stone Age humans who made these markings were likely part of an early wave of human migrants leaving Africa and into Europe, scientists suspect. If confirmed to be the oldest human-made rock ...