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 often ...

More than 11,000 years ago, mobile hunter-gatherer groups in southeastern Turkey carved massive T-shaped limestone pillars, ...

"Stone Tools in the Paleolithic and Neolithic Near East: A Guide surveys the lithic record for the East Mediterranean Levant (Lebanon, Syria, Israel, Jordan, and adjacent territories) from the ...

Railroad construction through a farm on the Danish island of Falster has revealed a 5,000-year-old Neolithic site hiding an advanced technology—a stone paved root cellar. Archaeology researchers from ...

The hand-held grinding tools used to process cereals that the first European Neolithic societies buried in deposits had a high symbolic value for the women who used them, related to time and the ...

Karahantepe is one of at least 20 sites dating to the Pre-Pottery Neolithic period, more than 10,000 years ago, that are being explored by archaeologists working in the Taş Tepeler, or Stone Mounds, ...

Grave goods, such as stone tools, have revealed that Neolithic farmers had different work-related activities for men and women. Grave goods, such as stone tools, have revealed that Neolithic farmers ...

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Learn more about Stonehenge's Altar Stone and how further study supports the idea that glaciers did not move the stone to England; Neolithic people did. Stonehenge — the ancient megalith in England — ...

Two previously unknown Neolithic stone circles estimated to be about 5,000 years old were discovered in Dartmoor National Park in southwest England. The stone circles, uncovered during fieldwork near ...