About 8,500 years ago, a 5'6" man with size 11 feet walked along the Severn Estuary at 2.6 miles per hour carrying a heavy load on his right shoulder. Archaeologists deduced all this from a series of ...

That means Prometheus came into existence around the time humans were exiting the Stone Age and beginning to work ... Here's a look at the oldest trees and animals on the planet and where to ...

Some of the animals have been overdrawn several times ... without knowing what cultural beliefs and aspirations these Stone Age artists were representing. Because the paintings are often found ...

They show animals as well as some human hunters. Some historians believe that Stone Age paintings had a religious meaning. They think the painted animals were meant to represent powerful spirits.

Archaeologists in Iceland have discovered what may be a rare Viking Age toy carved out of stone, but it's anyone's guess as to which animal it depicts. The figurine, which experts dated to between ...

This artifact was used for scraping fur from animal hides. For European and American Stone Age peoples, end scrapers served as heavy- duty scraping tools that could have been used on animal hides ...