NARRATOR:In the New Stone Age, homes are built, not just for the living but also for the dead. NARRATOR:Long barrows; huge earth mounds or stone houses are erected, often on top of hills.

Stone Age tribes deliberately avoided interbreeding by having unrelated families living together, a new study reveals.

Here you will find videos and activities about the Stone Age. Try them out, and then test your knowledge with a short quiz before exploring the rest of the collection. Narrator: Excuse me.

This artifact was used for scraping fur from animal hides. For European and American Stone Age peoples, end scrapers served as heavy- duty scraping tools that could have been used on animal hides ...

Hundreds of stone artifacts discovered on a Danish island may have been offered to the gods to ward off a climate crisis. A volcanic eruption in 2910 B.C. may be the reason Neolithic people on a ...

and disposal of skulls in Stone Age Italy." This discovery offers a rare and eerie glimpse into a ritualistic past, where the dead continued to play a vital role in the lives of the living—even ...