Archaeologists often break up this lengthy time span into three periods — the Paleolithic (3.3 million to 12,000 years ago), ...

The Stone Age was a prehistoric period ... variation in dates. While the Paleolithic period involved a nomadic lifestyle and the invention of stone tools, the Neolithic period was ushered in ...

Archaeologists previously assumed that East Asia did not see considerable tool development during the Middle Paleolithic, but ...

Tools from South Africa’s Robberg caves match styles found in Namibia and Lesotho, suggesting early humans shared methods and ...

Archaeologists discover 20,000-year-old stone tools in South African ... in the Journal of Paleolithic Archaeology. She added, "People living around the last ice age were very similar to people ...

The answer could shake up what's known about human origins during this period of the Stone Age, according to ... period known as the Middle Paleolithic.Stone tools with far-reaching ...