Imagine Europe tens of thousands of years ago: dense forests, large herds of elephants, bison and aurochs—and small groups of people armed with fire and spears. A new study shows that these people ...

New research shows that humans left their mark on the landscape through hunting and the use of fire tens of thousands of years before the advent of agriculture. The research paints a new picture of ...

Long before sails, maps, or compasses existed, small groups of hunter-gatherers appear to have crossed open Mediterranean ...

When British archaeologists completed radiocarbon analysis of a skeleton that came to be known as Cheddar Man, they estimated his age at 10,000 years. They paused, amazed, and repeated the dating ...

The Stone Age in Britain took place between around 15000BC to 2500BC. The Mesolithic period is known as the middle stone age. Stone Age people cut up their food with sharpened stones and cooked it on ...