A new study has shown that as early as the Stone Age, people in Africa traveled long distances to procure colorful stone, the ...

International research team from the University of Tübingen and the Senckenberg Nature Research Society finds early humans in ...

A trove of prehistoric Ice Age treasures are being exhibited alongside classic works of art to show why they deserve their ...

In the first of this year's series of summer-themed reads, Cónal Creedon recalls a special summer in the 1970s ...

Civilizations from Stone Age Scotland to the eighth-century Maya to 13th-century African empires have used dry stone walling ...

Humans and our ancestors have been creating tools, art, and everyday objects for millions of years, and each unexpected ...

According to history.com, Ötzi the Iceman, a 5,300-year-old mummy, carried dry-cured goat meat. This “Stone Age bacon” shows early humans knew how to slow-cook and preserve food for travel.

In a nutshell A 43,000-year-old fingerprint preserved in red ochre on a Spanish pebble represents the oldest known evidence ...

Zimbabwe, meaning “House of Stone,” has long used stone sculpture as a form of storytelling to immortalize history. The exhibition will grapple with the religious deception, forced labor and ...

Should art museums be showing art history? Or cultural history, which isn't the same thing? Getty and LACMA exhibitions give different answers.

12,000-year-old Stone Age site in Israel reveals first evidence of wheel technology Over 100 small stone objects from Neolithic period are the earliest instance of ‘spindle whorls,’ used to ...

This wasn’t a one-time usage situation, either—the for thousands of years, spanning the final Middle Stone Age and the Late Stone Age, the cavern was mined for a clay-based pigmentation ...