Ephedra seeds found in an ancient burial pit may be the earliest evidence yet for the medicinal use of plants.

Researchers confirmed that Lion Cavern in Eswatini is the world's oldest ochre mine, dating back 48,000 years. Using ...

Archaeologists have uncovered evidence of a previously unknown early farming society from the Neolithic period, otherwise ...

Two previously unknown Neolithic stone circles have been found in England, and they may have been part of a "sacred arc," an ...

has been revealed in the discovery of the oldest burial site in Africa. The Middle Stone Age grave - of a three-year-old child - was found in a cave in Kenya. In a paper in the journal Nature ...

Stone Age people cut up their food with sharpened ... In the warm periods between the Ice Ages, Britain became as hot as Africa is today! Elephants, hippos, rhinos and hyenas all moved north ...

Here you will find videos and activities about the Stone Age. Try them out, and then test your knowledge with a short quiz before exploring the rest of the collection. Narrator: Excuse me.