Long-distance seafarers crossed the Mediterranean far earlier than scientists had believed, a new study has found.

A jaw-dropping new reconstruction has brought to life the face, weapons, and shield of a late Stone Age warrior who lived 4,000 years ago in Siberia. Discovered in 2004, the warrior’s burial provides ...

During the Stone Age, humans in Europe and North Africa mostly lived as hunter-gatherers, gradually transitioning to farming and more complex societies during the Neolithic, or New Stone Age ...

In their stately ruins, the remains of these structures offer glimpses of the Stone Age people who made them ... hunter-gatherers to settling down and farming. The earliest evidence of agriculture ...

Then, towards the end of the Stone Age, a new idea began to spread across Britain… farming. Instead of following or tracking animals over long distances, people began to settle and stay in one ...

Ruins of the New Stone Age can be found throughout China's north ... providing suitable conditions for cultivating rice and developing farming. At the sites, indications of rice cultivation ...

The first genomic study of ancient people from the eastern Maghreb region — present-day Tunisia and northeastern Algeria — shows that Stone Age populations who lived there more than 8,000 ...