Misconception: Stone Age women didn’t get involved in the action. The Venus of Willendorf, a 11-centimeter-tall limestone figurine of a woman dating to 29,500 years ago.

Is your knowledge of the Stone Age rock-solid? Archaeologists often break up this lengthy time span into three periods — the Paleolithic (3.3 million to 12,000 years ago), the Mesolithic (12,000 ...

Researchers have determined that a collection of 12,000-year-old tiny stone objects found at a Stone Age site in the Jordan ...

For her, the notion that our Stone Age forebears were artisans serves to humanize them. “Working wood is slow, even if you’re good at it,” she said. “There are lots of different steps in ...

Stone Age humans stepped out in cave bear fur 300,000 years ago By Katie Hunt, CNN ... From this early time period, there is only a handful of sites that show evidence of bear skinning, ...

Ancient wooden tools found at a site in Gantangqing in southwestern China are approximately 300,000 years old, new dating has ...

More than 80 Stone Age tools have been unearthed at a farm in ... who was volunteering with us for the first time." ... tools during the middle Stone Age, also known as the Mesolithic period.

Researchers from Tokyo Metropolitan University crafted replica Stone Age tools and used them for a range of tasks to see how different activities create traces on the edge. They found that a ...