Archaeologists often break up this lengthy time span into three periods — the Paleolithic (3.3 million to 12,000 years ago), ...

Two newly discovered stone circles, built about 5,000 years ago in what is now the southwest of England, are the latest to show that Stonehenge was not the only Stone Age circle built in the region.

In 2004, the remains of a warrior were unearthed from the permafrost during an archaeological survey of the Kerdugen area, [… ...

“Most of the monuments you can see in this landscape date from the Neolithic—the New Stone Age. The earliest evidence of Neolithic activity in Britain is around 4100 B.C. The Neolithic is ...

According to English Heritage, the Altar Stone is a large slab of greenish Old Red Sandstone. Recent geological research had ...

Building 42 is one of more than a dozen mud-brick dwellings under excavation at Catalhoyuk, a 9,500-year-old Neolithic, or New Stone Age, settlement that forms a great mound overlooking fields of ...

In the green hills of southwest Britain, a quiet revolution took place over 5,000 years ago. Long before Stonehenge rose from the plains of Wiltshire, people were already shaping the land into sacred ...

Hyderabad: An archaeologist found rock bruisings from the prehistoric period on a hillock located on the outskirts of ...

Archaeologists have long assumed that Stone Age tombs in Ireland were built for ... not for a ruling dynasty. In Ireland's Neolithic period, which lasted from about 3900 to 2500 B.C., people ...

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

Forest Clearance in the Stone Age During the Neolithic period the hunters of northern Europe gradually became farmers. Using their tools and methods, Danish investigators have re-enacted how they ...

the Neolithic period was ushered in with the development of agriculture and settled communities. Are you up to date on recent research on the Stone Age? Don't take your knowledge for granite ...