While the Paleolithic period involved a nomadic lifestyle and the invention of stone tools, the Neolithic period was ushered in with the development of agriculture and settled communities.

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.

Here were artists. After the Stone Age came the Neolithic. In almost every place representational art disappeared. Geometric design took its place. They are boring.

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 ...

What was life like in the Neolithic Stone Age? Who were Britain’s prehistoric farmers? Learn about what life was like for the Neolithic people living on Skara brae in this year 5/6 BBC Bitesize ...

Neolithic landscape The rock crystal fragments were found at an early Neolithic ceremonial site at Dorstone Hill in the west of England that's thought to have been built about 6,000 years ago.

Examining the evidence that exists for the country's earliest inhabitants - Neanderthal man and early humans. Come to the first human beings in Wales, this cave provided shelter for a group of ...

Archaeologists in Germany have uncovered some of the earliest evidence of the use of clothing, with newly discovered cut marks on a cave bear paw suggesting the prehistoric animals were skinned ...

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 ...

BORSHCHIV, UKRAINE— Haaretz reports that archaeologists excavating in Verteba Cave in western Ukraine have discovered a trove of five female ceramic figurines made some 5,000 years ago by the ...