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 ...

Is the order of the modern alphabet connected to how our shared ancestors counted the phases of the moon and its effect on tides 50,000 years ago? Did the first stirrings of government and bureaucracy ...

Anthropologie (1962-), Vol. 53, No. 1/2, Special Issue: The 19th EAA Annual Meeting in Pilsen: What is Changing and When — Post-LBK Life in Central Europe and The Life of Lithic Tools in the ...

Could it be that our Paleolithic forebears were more than artists and hunters, that they were also the world’s earliest hydraulic engineers? The finding at the Ségognole 3 rock shelter in France’s ...

Earlier this week, we reported on a Swedish archaeologist who spent the last three years sailing the fjords in a replica boat similar to those the Vikings may have used. Not to be outdone, Japanese ...