July 11 (Reuters) - Around 5,000 years ago, the population in northern Europe collapsed, decimating Stone Age farming communities across the region. The cause of this calamity, called the Neolithic ...

The discovery of 76 stone traps in northern Chile reveals the existence of organized vicuña hunting and the activity of ...

Stone “Clovis points” used by prehistoric hunters to kill animals are also remarkably efficient at cutting meat off a large animal carcass – at least according to a modern bison butchering experiment.

Archaeologists recovered arrowheads, knives, grain mills, sickles, wheat kernels and animal bones, indicating mixed farming, hunting and early livestock management. Beads and pendants fashioned from ...

Archaeologists in south-east Turkey have made an extraordinary find—a prehistoric stone face that might turn everything we ...

An exciting and unique find from over 5,000 years ago was uncovered during the construction of a railroad. Archaeologists have discovered evidence of a stone-paved cellar dating back to the Stone Age ...

The findings suggest that Andean people kept hunting and gathering for thousands of years after farming and pastoralism began ...

Archaeologists have long assumed that Stone Age tombs in Ireland were built for royalty. But a new analysis of DNA from 55 skeletons found in these 5,000-year-old graves suggests that the tombs were ...

This photo provided by the Homa Peninsula Paleoanthropology Project in August 2025, shows Oldowan stone tools made from a variety of raw materials sourced more than 6 miles away from where they were ...

Archaeologists have uncovered the remains of a "unique" prehistoric ceremonial site in southern Sweden that dates back to the Neolithic period, or New Stone Age. The unusual site, located in the ...

The T-shaped pillar is the first with a face to be found in the Stone Age archaeological sites of Turkey’s Taş Tepeler ...