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 ...

"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 ...

Approximately 300,000 years ago, humans living in what is now Israel, Palestine, Jordan, Lebanon, and Syria began to stop ...

An analysis of DNA from Stone Age skeletons buried in Scotland reveals how people organized the burial of their dead.

Two symposia "The Middle Paleolithic: climbing uphill slowly or going nowhere fast?" and "Stability and change in the Middle Paleolithic and Middle Stone Age" were held in Denver during the 2002 ...

Based on this, researchers suggest that early homo sapiens planned for the long-term acquisition of resources earlier than ...

CORVALLIS, Ore – A new analysis of stone tools offers strong evidence for the theory that ancient people from the Pacific Rim traveled a coastal route from East Asia during the last ice age to become ...

Humans first developed complex and information-dense writing around 3000 B.C., when the Sumerians of southern Mesopotamia (modern-day Iraq) invented cuneiform scripts. But new research suggests the ...

An international research team led by the University of Tübingen has documented at the Jojosi site, in eastern South Africa, ...

Deogarh: Evidence of a Middle Paleolithic human settlement has been discovered for the first time in Deogarh district, researchers said Monday. A joint team from the postgraduate (PG) department of ...