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 ...

"Stone Tools in the Paleolithic and Neolithic Near East: A Guide surveys the lithic record for the East Mediterranean Levant (Lebanon, Syria, Israel, Jordan, and adjacent territories) from the ...

Approximately 300,000 years ago, humans living in what is now Israel, Palestine, Jordan, Lebanon, and Syria began to stop ...

Deogarh: Evidence of a Middle Paleolithic human settlement has been discovered for the first time in Deogarh district, researchers said Monday. A joint team from the postgraduate (PG) department of ...

Based on this, researchers suggest that early homo sapiens planned for the long-term acquisition of resources earlier than ...

CORVALLIS, Ore – A new analysis of stone tools offers strong evidence for the theory that ancient people from the Pacific Rim traveled a coastal route from East Asia during the last ice age to become ...

New technologies today often involve electronic devices that are smaller and smarter than before. During the Middle Paleolithic, when Neanderthals were modern humans’ neighbors, new technologies meant ...

An international research team coordinated by Ca' Foscari University of Venice has identified the presence of indigotin—a blue dye compound—on stone pebbles dating back to the Upper Paleolithic. This ...