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, Neanderthals and Denisovans emerged and began ...

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 ...

Stone tools unearthed in southwest China helped a mysterious group ... The answer could shake up what’s known about human ...

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

Roughly two million years old, this tool, known as the Kanjera stone, was part of a new Stone Age technology that helped ... some of humanity’s oldest tools. These implements, known to experts ...

In a cave overlooking the ocean on the southern coast of South Africa, archaeologists discovered thousands of stone tools, ...

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

A style of primitive stone tools named for the French site where they were first discovered have shown up half a world away.

"Słupcio" — or "little guy from Słupsk" in Polish — is the name given to the amber bear in 2013, when a Polish kindergartner ...

Long-distance seafarers crossed the Mediterranean Sea far earlier than scientists had believed, a new study has found.

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