A new study from SapienCE reveals that early modern humans at Blombos Cave in South Africa used ochre as a specialized tool ...

The Robberg is one of southern Africa's most distinctive and widespread stone tool technologies. Robberg tools—which we found at the Knysna site—are thought to be replaceable components in composite ...

These scientists built their own Stone Age tools to figure out how they were used Telltale fractures and microscopic wear marks should be applicable to real artifacts.

Stone Age homepage About 40,000 years ago, near the dawn of the 30-millennia-long period known as the Upper Paleolithic, the first anatomically modern humans ...

The oldest known architectural plans have been discovered in Saudi Arabia and Jordan, archaeologists say. The engravings, between 7,000 and 8,000 years old, depict desert kites, vast structures ...

Welcome to Animation Domination, Stone Age style. By about 30,000 years ago, Europeans were using cartoon-like techniques to give observers the impression that lions and other wild beasts were ...

Caves were humanity’s first art galleries. A re-creation of three common types of Paleolithic lighting systems – torches, grease lamps and fireplaces – illuminates how Stone Age cave ...

For her, the notion that our Stone Age forebears were artisans serves to humanize them. “Working wood is slow, even if you’re good at it,” she said.