A study has revealed new insights into Stone Age life and death, showing that stone tools were just as likely to be buried ...

A groundbreaking study of Latvia’s ancient Zvejnieki cemetery has overturned long-held ideas about Stone Age life and death. Researchers have uncovered new details about life and death during the ...

At Jiamabei in northern China, archaeologists uncovered ocher processing and blade-like stone tools dated to 40,000 years ago. This unique culture of Homo sapiens left no bones but reveals early ...

WASHINGTON — Old Stone Age humans were more picky about the rocks they used for making tools than previously known, according to research published Friday. Not only did these early people make tools; ...

A new study from SapienCE reveals that early modern humans at Blombos Cave in South Africa used ochre as a specialized tool for stone toolmaking during the Middle Stone Age, demonstrating advanced ...

This photo provided by the Homa Peninsula Paleoanthropology Project in August 2025, shows Oldowan stone tools made from a variety of raw materials sourced more than 6 miles away from where they were ...

At Zvejnieki cemetery in Latvia, stone tools once thought to be simple work items were found in graves with women, children, ...

Below the dark blue waters of the Bay of Aarhus in northern Denmark, archaeologists search for coastal settlements swallowed by rising sea levels more than 8,500 years ago. This summer, divers ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Early human ancestors during the Old Stone Age were more picky about the rocks they used for making tools than previously known, according to research published Friday. Not only did ...