Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Image Credit: Deposit Photos. Imagine a world free of smartphones, electricity, and even the concept of a wheel. That was the ...

During the Stone Age, a boy was buried with a crown of woodpecker feathers in what is now Sweden. Another Stone Age grave ...

Ancient European hunter-gatherers were far more advanced in their cooking methods than previously thought, a new study has ...

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; ...

Burned crusts on ancient pottery reveal that Stone Age people cooked fish together with berries, seeds, and other plants.

Before life as we know it began, early humans walked the Earth at the same time as woolly mammoths and sabre-toothed tigers. Through several prehistoric eras they lived, hunted and evolved, leaving ...

Stone Age people 40,000 years ago used a simple form of writing comparable in complexity to the earliest stages of the world’s first writing system, cuneiform, according to a study of mysterious signs ...

Researchers have uncovered chemical evidence that humans in what is now South Africa were using poisoned arrows for hunting as far back as 60,000 years ago (Sci. Adv. 2026, DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.adz3281 ...