A new study has shown that as early as the Stone Age, people in Africa traveled long distances to procure colorful stone, the ...

Photo: Gregor Bader The Mgwayiza Valley in Eswatini A new study has shown that as early as the Stone Age, people in Africa ...

The detailed reconstruction brings the prehistoric hunter-gatherer to life, revealing an intriguing set of features.

Learn more about the colorful and shiny stones that were turned into tools as many as 40,000 years ago, which were sometimes ...

International research team from the University of Tübingen and the Senckenberg Nature Research Society finds early humans in ...

Stone Age Britons imported wheat about 8,000 years ago in a surprising sign of sophistication for primitive hunter-gatherers long viewed as isolated from European agriculture, a study showed on ...

Ancient hunter-gatherers from Europe may have voyaged across the Mediterranean to Northern Africa around 8,500 years ago, new research suggests. Ancient DNA collected from the remains of Stone Age ...

Ahola's research sheds further light on the complex cultural systems of Nordic Stone Age groups, who were predominantly hunter-gatherers and fishers, according to a study published in 1989 in the ...

New archaeological discoveries from Malta suggest that prehistoric hunter-gatherers were far more capable oflong-distance sea travel than previously believed. These findings are reshaping our ...

A team of researchers from different disciplines has now concluded that Stone Age hunter-gatherers likely built this structure around 11,000 years ago to hunt reindeer.

Clusters of hunter-gatherers spent much of the late Stone Age working out the basics of farming on the fertile lands of Turkey before taking this knowledge to Europe. In an analysis of ancient ...

As hunter-gatherers encountered farmers, they were converted to an agricultural way of living. But a large-scale genetic analysis of Stone Age remains in Sweden suggests … Close ...