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 ...

She lived around 10,500 years ago, during the Mesolithic period. | Credit: ©2025 Kennis en Kennis Researchers and artists have created a striking facial reconstruction of a Stone Age woman who lived ...

More than 80 Stone Age tools have been unearthed at a farm in Dartmoor in the U.K. Experts believe these tools may be 8,000 years old, ... also known as the Mesolithic period.

This snapshot of the Mesolithic period, ... 9000-Year-Old Chewing Gum Reveals the Diet of a Stone Age Teenager. This discovery represents some of the oldest human genomes from Scandinavia.

Prehistoric people used a culinary method, similar to slow cooking today, to carefully extract animal teeth to use in decorative crafts, such as pendant-making, archaeologists have shown.

Alongside the figurine, the team found remnants of stone fireplaces, bone, and flaked stones, but ground-stone artifacts are rare. “The stone figure from Unit 5.2 is a rather exceptional find ...

This snapshot of the Mesolithic period, just before Europeans started farming, comes from analysis of DNA left in the chewed resin that we have conducted, now published in Scientific Reports.

Metagenomic analysis of Mesolithic chewed pitch reveals poor oral health among stone age individuals. DOI: 10.1038/s41598-023-48762-6.