Archaeologists have unearthed an 8,000-year-old stone figurine in a cave in Azerbaijan, offering a remarkable glimpse into the beliefs and practices of an ancient culture during the transition from ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Archaeologists discovered a 6400–6100 B.C. sandstone figurine in Azerbaijan’s Damjili Cave, marking a rare find from the Mesolithic era. Microscopic ...

Neolithic Age in Western Europe Recent interpretation of archaeological evidence has shown an increasing tendency to reduce the duration of the neolithic age as against the claims of the mesolithic ...

Bonsall, Clive, Rosemarie Lennon, Kathleen McSweeney, Catriona Stewart, Douglass Harkness, Vasile Boroneanţ, László Bartosiewicz, Robert Payton, and John Chapman ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The Stone Age was a prehistoric period that lasted more than 3 million years, from the point when ...

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Vol. 113, No. 37 (September 13, 2016), pp. 10298-10303 (6 pages) Researchers agree that domesticated plants were ...