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Researchers and artists have created a striking facial reconstruction of a Stone Age woman who lived roughly 10,500 years ago in what is now Belgium. The detailed depiction of the prehistoric ...

A team of archaeologists believes that three impressively sized circular ditch structures from around 4500 B.C.E.—which the team discovered in what is now southeastern Austria —are evidence of some of ...

Archaeologist Laura Dietrich studies a replica Stone Age axe in Germany. While not from the Latvian site, such replicas reveal how ancient tools were used. Some 6,000 years ago in the northern reaches ...

A new analysis of stone tools offers strong evidence for the theory that ancient people from the Pacific Rim traveled a ...

When it was made: Between 9600 and 4100 B.C. This unique carved amber bear was discovered in northern Poland by workers digging for peat in 1887. An ancient hunter likely wore it as a protective charm ...

Prehistoric hunter-gatherers were likely skilled seafarers who could make long and challenging journeys. Stone tools, animal bones and other artifacts unearthed in Malta indicate that humans first ...

Ancient wooden tools found at a site in Gantangqing in southwestern China are approximately 300,000 years old, new dating has shown. Discovered during excavations carried out in 2014–15 and 2018–19, ...

The discovery of a stone long overlooked in a German museum suggests that Ice Age communities experimented with vivid hues far earlier than scholars believed.