The ability of the early toolmakers to select high-quality stone, produce sharp flakes, and return to familiar raw-material sources suggests a deep understanding of their landscapes. It allowed early ...

A male skeleton named TBH1 reveals he was killed by a quartz projectile strike about 12,000 years ago. Archaeologists ...

Your iPhone's battery life might be impressive, but it's nothing compared to the longevity of these ancient 'walkie-talkies'.

Researchers have identified traces of plant toxins on Stone Age arrowheads - making it the oldest known arrow poison in the ...

Stone age humans were using poison for hunting far longer than previously believed. In A Nutshell Chemical traces survived ...

These weren’t clumsy rocks — they were precision tools of survival and slaughter. Stone Age weapons were savage by design, ...

Finding a cremated person from the Stone Age also seemed impossible because cremation is not generally practiced by African ...

Study finds plant poison was used on ancient arrows, pointing to sophisticated hunting methods used 60,000 years ago ...

When it comes to kitchen tools, celebrity chef Andrew Zimmern swears by a staple so basic it dates back to the Stone Age. In ...

The first Homo sapiens to arrive in the Americas may have originated in a region covering today’s Hokkaido, Sakhalin and the ...