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 ...

Chemical traces on 60,000-year-old stone arrowheads from South Africa suggest ancient hunters used plant poison.

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 ...

Blade cores from the upper cultural layer of Site 2 at Xinmiaozhuang site in Nihewan Basin, Zhangjiakou, Hebei province. [Photo provided to chinadaily.com.cn] A major piece of evidence that sheds ...

AFRICA: Near the equator, the Sun hurries below the horizon in a matter of minutes. Darkness seeps from the surrounding ...

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

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

A newly identified Paleolithic culture in northern China reveals unique stone tools and early ochre processing dating back around 40,000 years. The discovery reshapes timelines for Homo sapiens in ...

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