A new analysis of a carved mammoth tusk first discovered four decades ago reveals it may be the world's oldest boomerang.

The Stone Age was a prehistoric period that lasted more than 3 million years, from the point when human ancestors began using stone tools until the time we invented metalworking.. Archaeologists ...

Fifteen millennia ago, along the banks of the Rhine River, an artist from the Ice Age etched a fleeting moment into stone—a fish trapped within a crisscrossing net. These carvings, newly ...

A few other Upper Paleolithic sites — which, in general, date to between around 40,000 and 12,000 years ago — also contain remnants of textiles, baskets and rope (SN: 5/6/95; SN: 9/10/09).

Archaeologists discover 20,000-year-old stone tools in South African caves, revealing Ice Age techn. ... Research Center and lead author of the study published in the Journal of Paleolithic ...

Archaeologists have identified what may be Europe's oldest human-made megastructure, submerged 21 meters below the Baltic Sea in the Bay of Mecklenburg, Germany. This structure—which has been ...

Researchers are learning more about ancient central European society thanks to stones from thousands of years ago.. A team of international scientists analyzed markings made on more than 400 stone ...

But new research on a Paleolithic group called the Iberomaurusians, hunter-gatherers who buried their dead in Taforalt cave in what’s now Morocco between 13,000 and 15,000 years ago, is adding ...

Paleolithic humans may have understood the properties of rocks for making stone tools. ScienceDaily . Retrieved June 2, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2023 / 12 / 231201123703.htm ...

Stone Age 'megastructure' under Baltic Sea sheds light on strategy used by Paleolithic hunters over 10,000 years ago. ... connected by 1,673 smaller stones. ...