Many Stone Age people were murdered with the same method used by the Italian Mafia — and it was all part of a ritualistic sacrifice
An investigation spanning decades has revealed a strange pattern of violence during the Neolithic.
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This 10,000-year-old chewing gum shows Stone Age teens had bad oral health
A chewing gum can tell us a lot about things like what our ancestors consumed, and how much they took ...
Art’s oldest secret? How a 1455 painting unveiled a Stone Age mystery
Is this an artifact, a weapon, or just some random stuff that Jean Fouquet added to his work to grab ...
A deer tooth pendant carries the DNA of a woman from Eurasia
How did human DNA end up in a deer tooth pendant?
Stone-age people colonized rainforests by developing tool miniaturization
Any engineer today would be proud of them.
Human bones were fair game for Stone-Age pendants, ancient graves show
These pendants don't seem to have been considered 'special' in any way, though.
This is one of the oldest pieces of cloth in the world — and it’s made from something surprising
Researchers have been arguing whether it's made from wool or linen. Turns out, it's neither.
Capuchin monkeys are 3,000 years into their own Stone Age
In a remote area of Brazil, capuchin monkeys have been adapting their own stone tools for thousands of years.
Scientists recreate torches and other Stone Age cave lighting
Scientists recreate torches and other Stone Age cave lighting
Ancient fragments of twisted fibers show Neanderthals grasped math and had a materialistic culture
The fragments are at least 41,000 years old. They were found attached to a stone tool.
Archaeologists date prehistoric “Swiss army knife” from Chinese cave
It's a tool built by humanity's ancestors.
Early human ancestors may not have passed down knowledge but simply crafted tools on instinct
Luckily we're really big on it now.
Macaques may have just entered the Stone Age
Crack open a nutty one.
Around 4,500 years ago, Vietnamese stone-age traders traveled hundreds of kilometers to sell their wares
Unsurprisingly, they traded a lot of stone.
Advanced 77,000-year-old Stone Age weapons found in South Africa
Things became very serious at this point.
World’s oldest fillings come from the stone age and they’re basically asphalt
Sink your teeth into this story.
Time to update the Paleo Diet — it was heavy on plants and veggies, archaeologists found
Best enjoyed with a stone fork from a bark plate.
Ancient autism: 100,000 years ago, people with autism were championed and may even have shaped human evolution
Their unique skills provided a huge advantage to the groups who embraced them.
Wild oats might be the first cereal consumed by humans, as early as the Stone Ages
While analysing starch grains on ancient stone grinding tools from southern Italy, Marta Mariotti Lippi at the University of Florence ...
Fifteen ton Monolith found under the Mediterranean Sea, estimates put its carving at 9350 years ago
Zvi Ben-Avraham of Tel Aviv University and Emanuele Lodolo of the National Institute of Oceanography and Experimental Geophysics in Trieste, ...
Oldest dental filling is beeswax
Researchers have found what's believed to be the oldest dental feeling in history, dating from the stone age. The find ...
The oldest dildo could come from the Stone Age
This is possibly one of the earliest sex toys in human history.
