The search to work out who, or what made a particular set of European stone tools, what archaeologists sometimes refer to as assemblages. Was it Neanderthals? Or was it Homo sapiens?

Scottish stone circle isn’t so ancient after all, archaeologists say Sometimes, doing good science means admitting you were wrong.

Spanish archaeologists recently announced the discovery of an ancient stone with perplexing symbols carved onto it. The symbols, experts believe, are actually an ancient alphabet. If their ...

Ancient stone tools showing the pace of remarkable technological enhancements over time (1.75 to 0.85 million years ago). Credit: Los Alamos National Laboratory.

Experts are still puzzling over a basalt stone tablet more than three years after discovering it near Lake Bashplemi in Georgia. According to their recent study published in the Journal of Ancient ...

Ancient stone circles act both as portals and reminders of a different time, writes Rosalind Jana, as an exhibition at the British Museum explores the mysteries of the deep past.

A Kenyan site shows early hominids transported stone 13 kilometers for toolmaking as early as 2.6 million years ago.

Over the next two weeks, archaeologists and volunteers with Perth and Kinross Heritage Trust (PKHT) ) are digging at two ...

Mysterious stone carvings made thousands of years ago and recently uncovered in an excavation underneath Jerusalem have archaeologists stumped.

Stone Tools at Arabian “Crossroads” Present Mysteries of Ancient Human Migration Hominins made stone tools in central Arabia 190,000 years ago, and the hand axe technology raises questions ...

Biology Some Ancient ‘Human’ Tools May Be the Work of Monkeys Macaques in Thailand produced stone flakes while cracking nuts—a finding that could change what we thought about human history.

In pictures: huge beautiful ancient stone murals reveal exquisite carving techniques from over 1,000 years ago The murals are filled with bricks that seem unremarkable by themselves, but taken ...