stone age

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.

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 care of their teeth.

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 your attention?

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

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 in Italy and her colleagues were able to date the earliest known human consumption of oats as far back as 32,000 years ago – way before farming took root.

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, have discovered a monolith in deep water, resting on a spot that was once an island off the coast of Sicily. Their study has been published in the Journal of Archeological Science.

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 was made after the jaw-bone of a middle-aged man dating back from 6,500 years ago had a tooth filled with beeswax, pushing back early human dentistry. The jaw-bone was discovered some 100 years ago in […]

The oldest dildo could come from the Stone Age

This is possibly one of the earliest sex toys in human history.