The Stone Age was a prehistoric period that lasted more than 3 million years, from the point when human ancestors began using stone tools until the time we invented metalworking. Archaeologists often ...

"Stone Tools in the Paleolithic and Neolithic Near East: A Guide surveys the lithic record for the East Mediterranean Levant (Lebanon, Syria, Israel, Jordan, and adjacent territories) from the ...

Railroad construction through a farm on the Danish island of Falster has revealed a 5,000-year-old Neolithic site hiding an advanced technology—a stone paved root cellar. Archaeology researchers from ...

When Japanese scientists wanted to learn more about how ground stone tools dating back to the Early Upper Paleolithic might have been used, they decided to build their own replicas of adzes, axes, and ...

Learn more about Stonehenge's Altar Stone and how further study supports the idea that glaciers did not move the stone to England; Neolithic people did. Stonehenge — the ancient megalith in England — ...

A new Dartmouth College-led study analyzing stone tools from southern China provides the earliest evidence of rice harvesting, dating to as early as 10,000 years ago. The researchers identified two ...

Two previously unknown Neolithic stone circles estimated to be about 5,000 years old were discovered in Dartmoor National Park in southwest England. The stone circles, uncovered during fieldwork near ...