A well-preserved wooden structure at the archaeological site of Kalambo Falls, Zambia, dating back at least 476,000 years, is world’s oldest
Stone age artists carved detailed human and animal tracks in rock art from the Doro !Nawas Mountains in central Western Namibia; the study is published on PLoS ONE
Shell beads at the Kaylu rock shelter, provide new insights into seafaring, showing the routes of cultural transmission in the Caspian Sea region
Ancient climate change solves mystery of vanished South African lakes, Stone Age humans may have been more widespread across the continent
A Stone Age child buried with bird feathers, plant fibers and fur in Majoonsuo, situated in the municipality of Outokumpu in Eastern Finland
Human bones were used for making pendants in the Stone Age, on the island of Yuzhniy Oleniy Ostrov on Lake Onega
Friendship ornaments from the Stone Age: skilfully manufactured slate ring ornaments were fragmented on purpose, using pieces of rings as tokens
A 8,000 year old structure has been discovered, next to what is believed to be the oldest boat building site in the world on the Isle of Wight
A new study answers questions about the origins of the people who introduced food production–first herding and then farming–into East Africa
A new study, concerning the cave of Bàsura at Toirano and its fossil traces, identifies crawling behaviours from around 14,000 years ago