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

To simplify things, we break the Stone Age into three distinct periods: the Paleolithic Period, or the Old Stone Age; Mesolithic Period, or Mid Stone Age; and Neolithic Period, or New Stone Age.

Old Copper Dagger in a Forest, Sheds Light on Transition From Stone Age to Bronze Age Piotr Gorlach from the Historical and ...

The Paleolithic (or Old Stone Age) was the earliest and longest phase of human prehistory, lasting from about 3.3/2.5 million years ago to roughly 12,000 years ago. The research suggests that the ...

Awls were small, pointed hand tools employed in both the Old and New World to slice fibers for thread and fishing nets, and to punch holes in leather and wood. Stone Age peoples may also have ...

What can old stone tools, ancient fire pits ... once cumulative culture is firmly in place within a population (see Middle Stone Age/Middle Paleolithic below), technologies will begin to reflect ...

In the Orkney Islands, archaeologists close the chapter on a legendary excavation, capping two decades of remarkable ...

The most significant evidence of the presence in Wales of Palaeolithic or Old Stone Age people is the burial discovered in Paviland Cave in Gower. The bones were assumed to be those of a female ...

The paleo diet – also known as the caveman diet – is based on the idea of eating similar foods to our ancestors from the Palaeolithic or Old Stone Age, who lived around 2.5 million to 12,000 ...

Perhaps hoping to gain the blessing of the stone-age hunter-gatherers that dwelt along the east coast 30,000 years ago, visitors to the Baxian Caves (八仙洞) during the 1970s would grab a handful of soil ...

NARRATOR:Now people live in one place, it’s a whole new way of life. NEW STONE AGE GRANDDAD:In the old days we followed the herd. The animals we hunted for food, we picked the berries from the ...