Ancient European hunter-gatherers were far more advanced in their cooking methods than previously thought, a new study has ...

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 ...

Burned crusts on ancient pottery reveal that Stone Age people cooked fish together with berries, seeds, and other plants.

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 ...

Ancient DNA from Ajvide graves shows Stone Age burials often grouped extended relatives, highlighting the importance of wider ...

A new study has shown that as early as the Stone Age, people in Africa traveled long distances to procure colorful stone, the raw material for the manufacture of tools. Subscribe to our newsletter for ...

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

Around 2.5 million years ago, our planet looked very different to how it does now. Not only did woolly mammoths traverse the terrain alongside Stone Age people, our planet was undergoing a series of ...