The Stone Age was a prehistoric period that lasted more than 3 million years, from the point when human ancestors began using stone tools until the time we invented metalworking. Archaeologists often ...

"Stone Tools in the Paleolithic and Neolithic Near East: A Guide surveys the lithic record for the East Mediterranean Levant (Lebanon, Syria, Israel, Jordan, and adjacent territories) from the ...

An analysis of DNA from Stone Age skeletons buried in Scotland reveals how people organized the burial of their dead.

The research conducted so far has identified several archaeological layers spanning from the late Paleolithic to the Neolithic. At the earliest Neolithic level, researchers have recovered impressed ...