In Ireland's Neolithic period, which lasted from about 3900 to 2500 B.C., people built "megalithic monuments" — large stone structures that contained human bones and cremated remains.

An “extremely rare” 16,000-year-old canine skeleton from southern France offers evidence that Stone Age humans cared for their pets – although the animal was also probably killed by humans.

According to English Heritage, the Altar Stone is a large slab of greenish Old Red Sandstone. Recent geological research had ...

The social platform is testing age checks using facial scanning for access to sensitive content.

Forest Clearance in the Stone Age During the Neolithic period the hunters of northern Europe gradually became farmers. Using their tools and methods, Danish investigators have re-enacted how they ...

Stone Age humans used a form of "prehistoric sunscreen" more than 40,000 years ago that may have helped them survive whilst Neanderthals died out, according to a new study. Scientists from the ...

Researchers discovered that Stonehenge's Altar Stone originated from Scotland, not Wales, significantly altering our ...

Excavations at a cave on the island of Malta have uncovered stone tools, cooking site and animal skeletons from 8,500 years ago — 1,000 years before the first farmers arrived on the island ...

Based on archeological findings, many of the prehistoric finger paintings found by archeologists on cave walls were actually drawn by the same demographic currently renowned for its finger painting ...