Image caption, This work of art was found in a cave at Cresswell Crags, Derbyshire. It was made around 12,000 years ago. The Stone Age artist used a sharp stone to scratch the outline of a horse ...

Ochre is a clay-based pigment that was incredibly popular at that time, and was used in everything from cave paintings to personal ornamental decorations. High-tech analysis of the ochre shows ...

Researchers has uncovered never before seen details in a set of prehistoric stone objects that feature a variety of artworks.

MR. BURKITT'S “Old Stone Age”, a textbook for students, may for the purposes of a wider public be regarded as a progress report. Although it is a study of the period as a whole, and as such is ...

Our ancestors probably used a wide range of plant-based tools that have since been lost to history. Now we're finally getting a glimpse of this Botanic Age ...

Over the course of three research seasons in the small Hučivá Diera cave in the Belianske Tatry ... most of the buried hearth from the Stone Age and discovered a wide range of chipped stone ...

The ocean has a 'conveyer belt.' Here's why it's important. An astonishing—and accidental—Ice Age cave discovery An astonishing—and accidental—Ice Age cave discovery Ice Age mammoth’s ...

Nearly 16,000-year-old portrayals of fish surrounded by nets had evaded detection until a new technique took magnification to a new level.

The new album by the Cure, Songs of a Lost World, features a Slovenian artist's sculpture on its cover. Here's how it ended ...

“I am at a top London hospital and yet at times I feel as though we are operating in the stone age,” one doctor tells the FT. For example, doctors email lists of patients to themselves to ...

Eswatini in southern Africa is home to the world’s oldest ochre mine. A new study dates that mine to a full 48,000 years ago. Ochre is a clay-based pigment that was incredibly popular at that time, ...