During the Middle Paleolithic—a period spanning about 40,000 to 300,000 years ago, also called the Middle Stone Age—groups such as modern humans, Neanderthals and Denisovans emerged and began ...

A team of archeologists in South Africa had to climb to new heights to find an important set of tools made by humans about 20 ...

Stone tools unearthed in southwest China helped a mysterious group ... The answer could shake up what’s known about human ...

Similarities in fabrication techniques suggest that Paleolithic people passed on their methods - and may have shared them ...

Archaeologists in China have found stone technology previously thought to have been used by Neanderthals in Europe, ...

In a cave overlooking the ocean on the southern coast of South Africa, archaeologists discovered thousands of stone tools, ...

"Słupcio" — or "little guy from Słupsk" in Polish — is the name given to the amber bear in 2013, when a Polish kindergartner ...

A style of primitive stone tools named for the French site where they were first discovered have shown up half a world away.

The prehistoric settlement of Wangen-Hinterhorn and its pile dwellings were first identified in the shallow water zone along Lake Constance by a farmer in 1856, but extensive excavations by ...

Stone tools unearthed in southwest China helped a ... up what's known about human origins during this period of the Stone Age, according to new research.Archaeologists excavating the Longtan ...