(For those of you who’ve forgotten your ancient eras, the Neolithic era was the late Stone Age—the period when humans began shaping stone tools and producing, rather than hunting and gathering ...

Stone Age people may have gathered at night to watch animated “fireside art” VR simulations showed firelight would make images on engraved stones move and flicker.

A long-held stereotype is that ancient humans were big on meat. A new study of one hunter-gatherer population reveals a different sort of menu.

NEW YORK - You know those snacks that are OK if they're handy, but not worth the bother if you have to go track them down? Our Stone Age forerunners may have felt the same way about eating each other.

Stone Age-cartoon enthusiasts will recall that Fred Flintstone polished off racks of brontosaurus ribs and that Wilma Flintstone swanned around in a Siberian mastodon fur coat.

In the largest study of its kind, researchers have used DNA from a 6,700-year-old cemetery in France to reconstruct the lives of everyday Neolithic people.