A pilot project to scan the surface material of an Iraqi desert revealed 850 different artifacts from the Old and Middle ...

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.

A tiny head carved from mammoth ivory looks back at us from the Stone Age. This sculpture, discovered at the archaeological ...

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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 recent study has shed new light on the cognitive and cultural complexity of human societies during the Middle Paleolithic in the Levant. The research, led by Dr. Mae Goder-Goldberger (Hebrew ...

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

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 ...

Interestingly, all the artifacts were found on the surface of the ground, not buried deep in the soil. These artifacts ...

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 ...