Stone Age humans used a form of "prehistoric sunscreen" more than 40,000 years ago that may have helped them survive whilst ...

DNA analysis has revealed that Stone Age people from North Africa descended partly from European hunter-gatherers. This shows that early people not only came out of Africa but, much later ...

A reanalysis of ancient DNA shows that a major cultural change took place in Ireland after four centuries of farming.

JavaScript is required to view this activity. In the early Stone Age, people made simple hand-axes out of stones. They made hammers from bones or antlers and they sharpened sticks to use as ...

New archaeological finds in Malta add to an emerging theory that early Stone Age humans cruised the open seas.

Artifacts from the early Stone Age, particularly pebble tools ... to allow cattle rearing and agriculture. In this period people did not need to rely upon the Nile. But climate change meant ...

They are the Clovis caches, groupings of exquisitely carved spear points and/or other flaked stone artifacts ... people who flourished in North America at the end of the Ice Age, hunting mammoths ...

JavaScript is required to view this activity. In the early Stone Age, people made simple hand-axes out of stones. They made hammers from bones or antlers and they sharpened sticks to use as ...