The open rings are about 0.75 inches at the widest part of their opening, the researchers said. Justin Garnett and Frederic Sellet A little over a century ago, archaeologists exploring a Paleolithic ...

Developer Polyperfect has announced Polylithic, a new third-person survival/crafting game "with a dash of sci-fi plot" set in the Paleolithic era – i.e. early man. It's due to launch into Steam Early ...

The Stone Age was a prehistoric period that lasted more than 3 million years, from the point when human ancestors began using stone tools until the time we invented metalworking. Archaeologists often ...

Is the order of the modern alphabet connected to how our shared ancestors counted the phases of the moon and its effect on tides 50,000 years ago? Did the first stirrings of government and bureaucracy ...

New technologies today often involve electronic devices that are smaller and smarter than before. During the Middle Paleolithic, when Neanderthals were modern humans’ neighbors, new technologies meant ...

Archaeologists have unearthed a set of "truly significant" Stone Age artifacts during an excavation being conducted ahead of planned road improvement in northern England, researchers told Newsweek.

The increase in the productivity of stone tool cutting-edge (shown in white lines) did not occur before or at the beginning of Homo sapiens’ wide dispersals in Eurasia but subsequently occurred after ...

Evidence found at the site indicates that the knives were used to butcher the animals, not to kill them, researchers said. Juan Ignacio Martin-Viveros IPHES-SEARCH Along the banks of an ancient lake, ...

A magnified view of tiny specks of blue residue found on a Paleolithic stone artifact Izzy Wisher et al. / Antiquity, 2025 Researchers just found something that could change the way we envision color ...

Cave art that had been created in the Paleolithic age is thought to be the world's first attempt at producing a moving picture, not a muddled mess of limbs and heads. Michelle Starr Science editor ...