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 ...

"Stone Tools in the Paleolithic and Neolithic Near East: A Guide surveys the lithic record for the East Mediterranean Levant (Lebanon, Syria, Israel, Jordan, and adjacent territories) from the ...

MARDIN/ISTANBUL, 23 July (BelTA - Anadolu) - Archaeologists have uncovered rare artifacts from the Paleolithic era at Ulukoy Cave in Türkiye’s southeastern Mardin province, revealing the earliest ...

DORDOGNE, FRANCE—La Brújula Verde reports that Paleolithic rock art in southwestern France’s Font-de-Gaume Cave has been radiocarbon dated for the first time by a team of researchers led by Ina Reiche ...

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. A stone artifact from near the end of the ...

While life emerged around 4 billion years ago, human history—from the earliest humans approximately 2.5 million years ago to the present day—represents a relatively short period in the scale of ...

A magnified view of tiny specks of blue residue found on a Paleolithic stone artifact Izzy Wisher et al. / Antiquity, 2025 Researchers just found something that could change the way we envision color ...

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 color blue is hard to come by. Unlike red, yellow, and white, which occur readily in mineral form, blue is a rarity. For prehistoric people living in western Eurasia, an area roughly covering ...