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.

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 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 ...

The Ushikawa finding means that the Hamakita remains from Hamamatsu--estimated to be 17,000 to 22,000 years old with dating technology--are the sole known human remains from the Old Stone Age (12,000 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Archaeologists uncovered “an unusually rich treasure trove” inside the graves of three wealthy women from the Viking Age, offering a ... interestingly enough, a stone in the shape of a vulva.

A freshly unearthed Bronze-Age stone may be the oldest three-dimensional ... Archaeologists who studied patterns engraved on the 4,000-year-old stone say they believe the markings are a map ...