Stone Age hunters living in what is now South Africa built long rock walls that acted as traps, funnelling fleeing prey animals into kill zones where they could be easily dispatched. While these ...

At the same time this charcoal burst appears in the drill core record, our sites began to show up in the archaeological record—eventually becoming so numerous that they formed one continuous landscape ...

MATTHEW V. CARUANA, JACO VAN DER WALT, MARLIZE LOMBARD, EVIDENCE OF EARLIER STONE AGE OCCURRENCES AT BARBERSPAN IN THE NORTH WEST GRASSLAND BIOME, SOUTH AFRICA, The South African Archaeological ...

More than 80 Stone Age tools have been unearthed at a farm in Dartmoor in the U.K. Experts believe these tools may be 8,000 years old, made by our hunter-gatherer ancestors.

People living close together and not having access to antibiotics sound like a nightmare. Yet, this is how we spent much of our history and prehistory. A new international study coordinated from the ...

The researchers, from UCL Archaeology South-East, discovered 800 stone artefacts thought to be more than 300,000 years old, buried in material which filled a sinkhole and ancient river channel.