Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Image Credit: Deposit Photos. Imagine a world free of smartphones, electricity, and even the concept of a wheel. That was the ...

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 ...

During the Stone Age, a boy was buried with a crown of woodpecker feathers in what is now Sweden. Another Stone Age grave ...

A landmass that once connected Britain to mainland Europe had temperate forests that could have sustained Stone Age people ...

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 ...

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

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

Stone Age people 40,000 years ago used a simple form of writing comparable in complexity to the earliest stages of the world’s first writing system, cuneiform, according to a study of mysterious signs ...

Researchers have uncovered chemical evidence that humans in what is now South Africa were using poisoned arrows for hunting as far back as 60,000 years ago (Sci. Adv. 2026, DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.adz3281 ...