The ability of the early toolmakers to select high-quality stone, produce sharp flakes, and return to familiar raw-material ...

These weren’t clumsy rocks — they were precision tools of survival and slaughter. Stone Age weapons were savage by design, ...

Analysis - Our prehistoric human ancestors relied on deliberately modified and sharpened stone tools as early as 3.3 million years ago. The selection of rock type depended on how easily the material ...

Stone age humans were using poison for hunting far longer than previously believed. In A Nutshell Chemical traces survived ...

Mammoth bones dating back between 30,000 and 40,000 years discovered in a basement in Lower Austria, a key find in a century.

The Sein Island submerged stone structures include a football-field-long granite wall off Brittany that dates back more than ...

The previously unknown settlement appears to have been abandoned at some point in the 1300s, but researchers don't know why ...

EDO, an ad tech firm co-founded by actor and filmmaker Edward Norton, has been found liable for theft and breach of contract ...

A newly studied megalithic tomb in Oman reveals centuries-long Neolithic burial practices, regional mobility, and early ...

Members of the John Carroll Society gathered Jan. 11 to celebrate the Feast of the Baptism of the Lord at St. Patrick’s ...

Archaeologists excavating at Tadım Fortress and Höyük in eastern Turkey have unearthed a remarkable stone seal dating back 7,500 years, pushing evidence of organized settlement in the Elazig region ...

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