Stone tools are considered the first form of technology devised by ancient humans – but they might not have been invented ...

Members of the genus Australopithecus — which includes the famed fossil Lucy — were making stone tools at least 2.6 million years ago. Bone tools appear only much later in the human story ...

It wasn’t the Stone Age ... Europe’s ancient wagon technology was wheeled in from elsewhere or invented independently. But there is another line of evidence that the wheel was established ...

Stonehenge is one of the most mysterious and important monuments to have survived from Stone Age Britain ... of Exeter and Historic England, this ancient enclosure might have been a 'prototype ...

For a while now, a standing stone tucked away in a Berkshire woodland was believed to be a lone monument. New findings, however, have revealed the artifact to be but one piece of an immense ...

The ancient Egyptians believed that hieroglyphs had been invented by the gods. The Rosetta stone was discovered in 1799 AD. It is a three-foot high stone containing hieroglyphs, everyday ancient ...

A Day in the Life of a 10-year-old in the Stone Age. Watch more video Take a journey back to ancient Britain! Our resources will let you forget about the modern world and get into the minds of our ...

And that may change the way scientists think about when ancient humans started using crafted bone instead of stone as tools. The Olduvai Gorge has been a treasure trove of ancient human artefacts ...

Ancient DNA dating to between 16,000–18,000 years ago—the oldest human DNA to ... This supports the idea that demographic changes played a role in the transition from the Middle to the Later Stone Age ...