Stone Age

The Sentinelese people, residing on North Sentinel Island in the Indian Ocean, are a stone age tribe that has inhabited the island for an estimated 60,000 years. Their population ranges from about 80 to 150 individuals, and they maintain a...

The world's last and most isolated stone age tribe lives on North Sentinel Island, off the southwest coast of South Andaman, India. In her analysis of interactions and contacts with the Andaman Islanders, Zarine Cooper, a specialist who has verified...

In the expansive woods of northern Finland, just below the Arctic Circle, there's a big field with many "strange" holes or ancient graves. Around sixty years ago, workers found this place called Tainiaro, and ever since people have wondered...

A new study by researchers from the Israel Antiquities Authority reveals that conflicts in the Southern Levant have deep historical roots involving the use of mass weapons production, tracing back to the late Stone Age. The research focused on analyzing...

A stone age couple locked in an eternal embrace was discovered in 2007 by a group of archaeologists in a tomb near Mantua, a region in Lombardy, Italy. Dubbed the Lovers of Valdaro is a pair of skeletons lying face...

Archaeologists have made a fascinating discovery of the oldest wooden structure that sheds new light on our history. They've found evidence that humans were using wood to build things much earlier than we originally believed and as early as...

The discovery of ochre fragments at a Stone Age site in England supports an ancient Greek explorer's account of Britons as "painted people."

Archeologists near Prague have discovered the remains of a Stone Age structure that predates Stonehenge and even the Egyptian Pyramids. The structure is an enigmatic complex known as the roundel. The excavated stone age structure is about 55 meters in...

DNA retrieved from the ancient skeleton of a teenage girl found in Sulawesi, Indonesia has shed light on a group of previously unknown humans, providing insight into our development as a species. Information regarding the discovery of the stone-age skeleton,...

The Ephoreia of Palaeoanthropology-Speleology of southern Greece along with the University of Tübingen discovered an ancient elephant skeleton in the area of Arcadia, with preliminary estimations determining it to be from 300,000 to 600,000 B.C., the Athens-Macedonian News Agency reports. The bones were found at...