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 ...

Ancient European hunter-gatherers were far more advanced in their cooking methods than previously thought, a new study has found, combining ingredients in “remarkably selective” ways, with cuisines ...

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

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

Imagine a tool from the Stone Age. You're probably thinking of something in the shape of a leaf, with at least one of its sides fashioned into a point. But whether that point is sharp or blunt, smooth ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. DNA analysis has revealed that Stone Age people from North Africa descended partly from European hunter-gatherers. This shows that ...

Researchers have found cannibalized human remains from at least 11 people in El Mirador cave in northern Spain, suggesting it was the site of a violent Neolithic clash 5,600 years ago. When you ...

The “sacred arc” theory might sound like a plot point straight out of a fantasy novel, but it really describes an archaeologist’s suspicion that Stone Age people in southwestern England built a ...

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 ...