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.

Researchers have determined that a collection of 12,000-year-old tiny stone objects found at a Stone Age site in the Jordan ...

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 ...

Perhaps hoping to gain the blessing of the stone-age hunter-gatherers that dwelt along the east coast 30,000 years ago, visitors to the Baxian Caves (八仙洞) during the 1970s would grab a handful of soil ...

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 ...

They are the Clovis caches, groupings of exquisitely carved spear points and/or other flaked stone ... age, which in the case of the two obsidian points tested was thousands of years old.

Using special dredges, scientists have just brought to the surface 100 flint artefacts made by Stone Age humans between 15,000 and 8,000 years ago. The artefacts – a number of small flint ...

Archaeologists at the Bahra 1 site in Kuwait unearthing a 7,000-year-old alien-like figurine. Adam Oleksiak/CAÅ UW / SWNS The findings indicate a “prehistoric crossroads of cultural exchange ...

The Red Lady of Paviland is one of the oldest skeletons found in Britain, dating from around 30,000 years ago.

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 ...