stone age

The origin of the largest stones used to build Stonehenge has been a matter of considerable debate for centuries,…

Humans may have continued to thrive in spite of a supervolcano eruption 74,000 years ago, according to a new study.…

Archaeologists have spotted an 8,000-year-old wooden platform in the waters off southern Great Britain.

Archaeologists working in the Bale Mountains of Ethiopia have uncovered the earliest evidence to date of human…

If you think your experience with the dentist is scary, just think about how bad the caveman dentist’s office would…

New research on Ötzi the Iceman, an exquisitely preserved 5,300-year-old human found in a European glacier, shows…

Dentists are scary. Even in the most modern medical scenario, it is undeniably horrifying for someone to stick sharp…

Europe has surprisingly little genetic variety. Learning how and when the modern gene-pool came together has been a…

Archaeologists working at the Alepotrypa Cave in Greece have discovered a rare 5,800-year-old double burial in which…

It's widely acknowledged that modern Europeans mated with Neanderthals at some point in the past. We're just not…

By using an innovative non-invasive photographic technique, European researchers have managed to locate and map the…

Though archaeologists have long suspected that the huge neolithic stones of Stonehenge once formed a complete…

Archeologists studying the remains of early humans in Africa have unveiled a number of ancient artifacts that push…

We now know that Stonehenge's stones traveled great distances to reach their final destination in Wiltshire, some…

Until recently, scientists thought humans first left Africa between forty and seventy thousand years ago. But the…

I love everything about this. I just like to pretend that George the Neanderthal carried a Stone Aged Swiss Army…

A recently uncovered archaeological site in the Scottish highlands dates back to the Mesolithic, roughly 10,000…

Like the decidedly unfun (but funny!) Angry Birds on BlackBerry, Instagram on BlackBerry is just as miserably…

Stonehenge. How the heck was it built? The latest theory, from a student, says since the Stone Age men didn't have…

New research is suggesting that Stone Age Britons were arranging hilltop monuments in an elaborate grid of isosceles…