Further south, in the Don River basin, the menu changed. There, the “chefs” were obsessed with seeds. The foodcrusts were packed with wild grasses and wild legumes, like clover, all cooked together ...

New research shows hunter-gatherers also ate a variety of plants as well as animal meat during the Stone Age. Scientists led by Lara González Carretero from the University of York used a new technique ...

Imagine a world free of smartphones, electricity, and even the concept of a wheel. That was the reality for our distant ancestors during the Stone Age. While their lives might seem unrefined when ...

A study of 125 skeletons from two Neolithic cemeteries in Hungary has revealed that men and women had clear gender roles — ...

Soil from 7,000-year-old Swedish graves reveals hidden feathers and fur, showing some Stone Age people were fully dressed at their burial.

Archaeologists are revealing the secrets of a long-lost Stone Age civilisation – believed to be the oldest in the world. Ongoing investigations by Turkish, British and other archaeologists in ...

The origins of writing aren’t set in stone. The ancient cave peoples weren’t as illiterate as portrayed in popular media.

The third grave carried two children with a third degree relation—probably cousins—and the fourth grave had a young woman and a girl, also related at the third degree. Likely, one was a cousin or ...

Mysterious signs engraved on objects reveal that a form of proto-writing may have been used in Europe 40,000 years ago, tens of thousands of years before the emergence of a full writing system ...

Sculptures and tools from the Stone Age show markings that could be an early precursor to written language, according to a new analysis.