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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

Archaeologists believe they may have found the world’s oldest 3D map dating back around 13,000 years, as revealed in a new study. Located in a rock shelter called Ségognole 3, south of Paris ...

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 ...

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 ...