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.

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.

EarlyHumans The Evolution of the Stone Age: A Complete Timeline of The Palaeolithic Posted: April 3, 2025 | Last updated: April 3, 2025 Explore the Paleolithic era, the dawn of humanity, spanning ...

For millennia, fire has been considered an essential element for human survival: it not only provided warmth in hostile climates but also enabled food cooking, tool-making, and even served as a hub ...

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Archaeologists have long assumed that Stone Age tombs in Ireland were built for royalty. But a new analysis of DNA from 55 skeletons found in these 5,000-year-old graves suggests that the tombs ...

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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 ...

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 ...

a relic of Britain’s Victorian railway mania. Built amidst frenzied competition, it witnessed the boom and bust of speculative investment, duplications, and inefficiency. Explore how this engineering ...