Stone tools and stone circles discovered in coastal Scotland show that prehistoric people settled farther north than anyone ...

Archaeologists often break up this lengthy time span into three periods — the Paleolithic (3.3 million to 12,000 years ago), the Mesolithic (12,000 to 10,000 years ago), and the ...

For European and American Stone Age peoples, end scrapers served as heavy- duty scraping tools that could have been used on animal hides, wood, or bones. Once the hide was removed from an animal ...

Maryland is home to many historical artifacts, but a discovery in Reisterstown dates back much further than you might expect ...

These tools were made a very, very long time ago. Over 10,000 years ago, in what we now call the Stone Age. And to show how long ago that is, I'm going to walk back in time. This is today.

Stone Age humans were only able to develop relatively advanced tools after their brains evolved a greater capacity for complex thought, according to a new study that investigates why it took early ...

A group of wild capuchin monkeys in Brazil have used stones as tools to prepare their favorite ... recent weeks showing evidence of a monkey "Stone Age" from the Primate Archeology Project at ...

“If you define ‘Stone Age’ as a time period when individuals are using stones as tools, capuchins have their own Stone Age, that’s not a problem,” Proffitt says. “Whether that Stone ...

also called the Middle Stone Age—groups such as modern humans, Neanderthals and Denisovans emerged and began developing new stone tools. Archaeologists have found evidence of these dynamic ...