Stone Age people were by no means dull cave dwellers. Breathtaking finds in the caves of the Danube valley in southern ...

Symbols and markings carved into tools and figurines by Stone Age humans over 40,000 years ago could be an ancient precursor to writing, according to a new analysis. The marks, found on 260 artifacts ...

The blue stingray’s disc-like shape would have made it ideal for tracing. Kyle Smith South Africa’s Cape south coast offers many hints about how our human ancestors lived some 35,000 to 400,000 years ...

The Australian aborigines wear practically no clothes, grow no crops, live by hunting and berry picking. Their major art consists of rock pictures of spirits called Wondjina. First painted centuries ...

Excavation sites across the world hold keys to the past - a time when civilisations not just existed but thrived without modern technology, the internet, and social media. Scientists on these sites ...

Over 40,000 years ago, our early ancestors were already carving signs into tools and sculptures. According to a new analysis by linguist Christian Bentz at Saarland University and archaeologist Ewa ...

Zimbabwe is the house of stone, both literally and figuratively, with its very name derived from the ancient stone city of Great Zimbabwe. Stone is more than just a material here – it’s the totem pole ...