Stone Age humans mastered fire technology during Earth’s harshest climate period 23,000 years ago, creating hearths that reached temperatures of 600°C—comparable to modern campfires.

The researchers believe that Neanderthals, an extinct species of human known to have lived in that area as far back as ...

Is your knowledge of the Stone Age rock-solid? Archaeologists often break up this lengthy time span into three periods — the Paleolithic (3.3 million to 12,000 years ago), the Mesolithic (12,000 ...

Stone Age hunter-gatherers may have been surprisingly skilled seafarers. Malta's first settlers arrived from mainland Europe 1,000 years earlier than thought ...