To simplify things, we break the Stone Age into three distinct periods: the Paleolithic Period, or the Old Stone Age; Mesolithic Period, or Mid Stone Age; and Neolithic Period, or New Stone Age.

Roughly 8,000-year-old remains unearthed from present-day Tunisia held a surprise: European hunter-gatherer ancestry ...

The Paleolithic era, also known as the Old Stone Age, was the earliest and longest phase of human prehistory. It lasted from about 2.6 million years ago to roughly 12,000 years ago. Until now ...

Awls were small, pointed hand tools employed in both the Old and New World to slice fibers for thread and fishing nets, and to punch holes in leather and wood. Stone Age peoples may also have ...

What can old stone tools, ancient fire pits ... once cumulative culture is firmly in place within a population (see Middle Stone Age/Middle Paleolithic below), technologies will begin to reflect ...

The 29,000-year-old bones of a child discovered in Thailand are the oldest ... Both the skeleton and the method of burial are ...

The research team found the remains while working in a region of Borneo known for its Stone Age rock art. The skeleton was largely intact but lacked a left foot and the lower parts of its left fibula ...

The most significant evidence of the presence in Wales of Palaeolithic or Old Stone Age people is the burial discovered in Paviland Cave in Gower. The bones were assumed to be those of a female ...

NARRATOR:Now people live in one place, it’s a whole new way of life. NEW STONE AGE GRANDDAD:In the old days we followed the herd. The animals we hunted for food, we picked the berries from the ...

Awls were small, pointed hand tools employed in both the Old and New World to slice fibers for thread and fishing nets, and to punch holes in leather and wood. Stone Age peoples may also have ...