Following her death about 5,600 years ago, a Stone Age woman's skull took an unexpected journey when mud and water washed it away from her burial site and into the craggy rocks of a steep cave in ...

The Neolithic period, or New Stone Age, ... DNA studies of bones found in a cave in Germany in 2004 suggest that Neolithic farmers may have lived alongside hunter-gatherer societies for around ...

The Stone Age was a prehistoric period that lasted more than 3 million years, from the point when human ancestors began using stone tools until the time we invented metalworking.. Archaeologists ...

When the Stone Age cave paintings at Altamira and Lascaux were stumbled upon in modern times, ... After the Stone Age came the Neolithic. In almost every place representational art disappeared.

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

To reach the only place in the world where cave paintings of prehistoric marine life have been found, archaeologists have to dive to the bottom of the Mediterranean off southern France.

Designer Matthias Kaeding is looking to the past for design inspiration…like way in the past. His ceramic knives mimic those you might find in a cave during the Stone Age. And really, why not ...

Archaeologists think ancient structures at Dorstone Hill and Arthur's Stone were part of an early Neolithic, or New Stone Age, ceremonial landscape built up 1,000 years before Stonehenge, which ...

DNA analyses of human remains found at the site revealed that the majority of the male individuals buried there shared a ...

Two views of a boomerang made out of mammoth ivory that was discovered in Obłazowa Cave in Poland. | Credit ... at the Obłazowa site has yielded groundbreaking insights into its age," the researchers ...

Activity 2: Neolithic Stone Age quiz; Life in the Neolithic period. Around 6,000 years ago, instead of spending all their time hunting and gathering, people in Britain started living in a new way.