New research along Turkey’s Ayvalık coast reveals a once-submerged land bridge that may have helped early humans cross from ...

When Japanese scientists wanted to learn more about how ground stone tools dating back to the Early Upper Paleolithic might have been used, they decided to build their own replicas of adzes, axes, and ...

"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 ...

Stretching from western Anatolia to southeastern Europe, this previously unknown land bridge may have been a migration route ...

Finding 9,000-year-old organic remains in eastern Norway is extraordinarily rare due to acidic soil conditions that typically destroy such materials quickly. The exceptional preservation at Horten has ...

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 ...

Archaeologists from the Field Museum unearthed thousands of ancient stone tools in a cave overlooking the ocean on the southern coast of South Africa, revealing sophisticated fabrication techniques ...

An “emotional and inspiring” archaeological find of Paleolithic tools has revealed a long-lost prehistoric passage that may ...

Tokyo, Japan – Researchers from Tokyo Metropolitan University crafted replica stone age tools and used them for a range of tasks to see how different activities create traces on the edge. They found ...

The nature of the find indicates that the tools were bundled when deposited, likely in a container or case made from a perishable material, according to the study, which was published Aug. 13 in the ...

The prehistoric peopling of Europe has long been documented as occurring in waves from the western edge of Eurasia.