The Stone Age was a prehistoric period that lasted more than 3 million years, from the point when human ancestors began using stone tools until the time we invented metalworking. Archaeologists often ...

Explore 10 intriguing Mesolithic Age facts highlighting tools, lifestyle, settlements, and human evolution during this key ...

A two-inch Mesolithic stone figurine from Azerbaijan tells a tale of cultural growth. It’s the first cultural find from the area of the South Caucasus. The sandstone figurine depicts a human, and ...

The textbook assumption is that when the first modern humans arrived in Europe, around 45,000 years ago, they quickly evolved ...

The prehistoric settlement submerged under Lake Kuolimojarvi provides us with a clearer picture of the human occupation in South Karelia during the Mesolithic and Early Neolithic Stone Age (about ...

A perfectly-preserved leaf that fell from an elm tree 6,000 years ago has been discovered intact in Lancashire. Archaeologists found the leaf while clearing a plot of land just outside Blackpool in ...

There’s no face on the oldest piece of art—a small sandstone figurine of a human from the Mesolithic era—ever found in one region of modern-day Azerbaijan. In a study published by Archaeological ...