During the Middle Paleolithic—a period spanning about 40,000 to 300,000 years ago, also called the Middle Stone Age—groups ...

New archaeological finds in Malta add to an emerging theory that early Stone Age humans cruised the open seas.

A set of Stone Age artifacts have revealed evidence of advanced ... caves in the Levant were deliberately engraved with ...

Stone Age Britons made necklaces and bracelets from tusks, bones and shells. They also drew patterns on their bodies, using a kind of paint made from ochre (a type of red clay). Image caption ...

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 ...