To simplify things, we break the Stone Age into three distinct periods: the Paleolithic Period, or the Old Stone Age; Mesolithic Period, or Mid Stone Age; and Neolithic Period, or New Stone Age.

The 31,000-year-old burial was confirmed to date to the Upper Paleolithic or Old Stone Age, which made it the oldest burial of twins on record. According to an analysis conducted, one of the ...

Awls were small, pointed hand tools employed in both the Old and New World to slice fibers for thread and fishing nets, and to punch holes in leather and wood. Stone Age peoples may also have ...

In the Orkney Islands, archaeologists close the chapter on a legendary excavation, capping two decades of remarkable ...

What can old stone tools, ancient fire pits ... once cumulative culture is firmly in place within a population (see Middle Stone Age/Middle Paleolithic below), technologies will begin to reflect ...

This was a tremendous achievement, and essential to their future survival. We begin in the Old Stone Age by looking at hunter-gatherers who lived by hunting animals and collecting fruit and nuts ...

The research team found the remains while working in a region of Borneo known for its Stone Age rock art. The skeleton was largely intact but lacked a left foot and the lower parts of its left fibula ...

NARRATOR:Now people live in one place, it’s a whole new way of life. NEW STONE AGE GRANDDAD:In the old days we followed the herd. The animals we hunted for food, we picked the berries from the ...

Previous research held that the region’s architecture made a simple progression from round to rectangular structures during the early Stone Age. This research relied on qualitative descriptions ...

An archaeological dig at a site earmarked for housing has uncovered more than 300 stone age tools and artefacts. The 9,000-year-old site, on Castle Hill, Rhuddlan, Denbighshire, is "on a par with ...