WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A supervolcano eruption about 74,000 years ago on Indonesia's island of Sumatra caused a large-scale environmental calamity that may have decimated Stone Age human populations ...

Early humans were extracting stone in southern Africa more than 200,000 years ago, according to new research. Ancient people quarried rocks for their tools at locations they deliberately sought out ...

As long as 220,000 years ago—far earlier than previously thought—people quarried rocks for their tools in places they specifically sought out. An international research team led by the University of ...

Stone Age people in northern Scotland buried related males — but not females — together in the same tomb, a new DNA study reveals, creating "webs of descent" across several Neolithic archaeological ...

The “sacred arc” theory might sound like a plot point straight out of a fantasy novel, but it really describes an archaeologist’s suspicion that Stone Age people in southwestern England built a ...

Researchers have uncovered chemical evidence that humans in what is now South Africa were using poisoned arrows for hunting as far back as 60,000 years ago (Sci. Adv. 2026, DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.adz3281 ...

Stone Age people 40,000 years ago used a simple form of writing comparable in complexity to the earliest stages of the world’s first writing system, cuneiform, according to a study of mysterious signs ...

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