Researchers have been exploring Iraq’s Western Desert to decode its geomorphological history and search for traces of early ...

Archaeologists recently uncovered a trove of Stone Age artifacts on the seafloor of the North Sea, shedding light on a lost prehistoric land that once bridged Great Britain and mainland Europe.

and Goren Y. 1989. Petrographic Analyses of Fourth Millennium B.C. Pottery and Stone Vessels from the Northern Negev, Israel. BASOR 275:5–14. Gopher A. and Eisenberg E. 2001. Groundstone Artifacts and ...

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 ...

A 6-year-old’s beach find turns out to be a 60,000-year-old Neanderthal hand axe, now displayed in Worthing Museum.

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 ...

Sacrifices of “sun stones” occurred around the same time a volcanic eruption in 2900 BC dimmed the sun throughout Northern ...

Learn more about the sun stones, shale artifacts that were sacrificed at the Neolithic site of Vasagård after a volcanic ...

Like all but one of the Fenn artifacts, this point bears a residue of red ocher, an iron-rich pigment that Stone Age cultures often used in ceremonies. The scratches visible on the flaked base ...

namely the occurrence of Stone Age artifacts in relation to graves. “Could a Viking who was resident on the farm have recognized the stone ball as some kind of exotic “thunder bolt ...

Using special dredges, scientists have just brought to the surface a hundred flint artefacts made by Stone Age humans between 15,000 and 8000 years ago. The artefacts - a number of small flint ...