Researchers working with Indigenous experts have uncovered fascinating information about a set of ancient rock engravings in southwestern Africa. The rock art was created by hunter-gatherers in what ...

During the Later Stone Age in what is now Namibia, rock artists imbued so much detail into their engravings of human and animal prints that current-day Indigenous trackers could identify which animals ...

[ Related: Butchered skulls point to Europe’s Ice Age cannibals. ] The study centers on the Zvejnieki cemetery site in northern Latvia. Dating back to about 7500 to 2500 BCE, more than 2,000 animal ...

Archaeologists in south-east Turkey have made an extraordinary find—a prehistoric stone face that might turn everything we believe about the origins of art and self-awareness on its head. In the early ...

Expert trackers have been able to identify the species depicted in around 400 animal footprints carved on rocks in Namibia during the Stone Age. In most cases, they were also able to identify the ...

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More than 80 Stone Age tools have been unearthed at a farm in Dartmoor in the U.K. Experts believe these tools may be 8,000 years old, made by our hunter-gatherer ancestors. The site, located near the ...

Prehistoric hunter-gatherers were likely skilled seafarers who could make long and challenging journeys. Stone tools, animal bones and other artifacts unearthed in Malta indicate that humans first ...

Unlike many of their mostly meat-eating peers, a group of late Stone Age hunter-gatherers living in what is now northeastern Morocco had a largely plant-based diet. But despite dining for millennia on ...

"Published in cooperation with ArchaeNova e.V., Heidelberg, Germany. Translation: Mirko Wittwar."--Title page verso. Originally published by C.H. Beck, München in ...

Archaeologist Laura Dietrich studies a replica Stone Age axe in Germany. While not from the Latvian site, such replicas reveal how ancient tools were used. Some 6,000 years ago in the northern reaches ...

A study has revealed new insights into Stone Age life and death, showing that stone tools were just as likely to be buried with women and children as with men. Subscribe to our newsletter for the ...