To simplify things, we break the Stone Age into three distinct periods: the Paleolithic Period, or the Old Stone Age; Mesolithic Period, or Mid Stone Age; and Neolithic Period, or New Stone Age.

The discovery shows that humans' remarkable ability to adapt is the real reason major advances happened during the Stone Age.

The 29,000-year-old bones of a child discovered in Thailand are the oldest ... Both the skeleton and the method of burial are ...

PHIL: He was over 21 years old, he was quite healthy, and he had a lot of fish in his diet. RAKSHA: We think Stone Age people believed his grave was a magical place, and visited the cave from ...

NARRATOR:Now people live in one place, it’s a whole new way of life. NEW STONE AGE GRANDDAD:In the old days we followed the herd. The animals we hunted for food, we picked the berries from the ...