In the Orkney Islands, archaeologists close the chapter on a legendary excavation, capping two decades of remarkable ...

But Stone Age families likely had a relatively manageable amount of children. On average, hunter-gatherer women gave birth to ...

This artifact was used for scraping fur from animal hides. For European and American Stone Age peoples, end scrapers served as heavy- duty scraping tools that could have been used on animal hides ...

Horses also triggered the first age of metal, the Bronze Age, making it possible to trade copper and zinc — the metal’s two ingredients — across vast distances. Bronze jewelry, tools ...

These farms marked the start of a new age in Britain ... objects are the kind of things that would have been displayed there. As you sat on the large stone seat directly in front of the ...

NEW STONE AGE GRANDDAD:It’s just strange sleeping under the same roof every night of the year. Oh if your grandma was still alive she’d be amazed how much things have changed. NEW STONE AGE ...

Researchers believe the site was used as a ritual gathering place during the Neolithic period thousands of years ago.

They were in situ, in their original context.’ The sound of Stone Age hunter-gatherer toolmakers at work on the veld has faded away through time, but thanks to a group of archaeologists their ...